Honestly, this. This is exactly the usecase that I’ve found it best for Claude. That and automating a test that I would otherwise have done manually.

The niche I work in (FPGA engineering), the builds take a relatively long time (right now, at my current company my builds are generally 30-60m. Other places I’ve had 6+ hour builds…). A few weeks ago I was testing a corner case I found and was doing it manually, which was tedious. While building a new image that should fix it, I told Claude what I wanted to test and the clanker spit out a script that would have taken me longer to build than the FPGA image would have taken to finish. This way, I also have a somewhat decent (definitely not perfect) script that can take care of testing that corner case pretty well automatically.

That kind of thing is probably the best use case I’ve found for clankers like that.