| There's a local website that sells actual physical Blu-rays. Their webshite is a horror show of Javascript. I had Claude Code build me a Playwright+python -based scraper that goes through their movie section and stores the data locally to an sqlite database + a web UI for me to watchlist specific movies + add price ranges to be alerted when it changes. Took me maybe a total of 30 minutes of "active" time (4-5 hours real-time, I was doing other shit at the same time) to get it to a point where I can actually use it. Basically small utilities for limited release (personal, team, company-internal) is what AI coding excels at. Like grabbing results from a survey tool, adding them to a google sheet, summarising the data to another tab with formulas. Maybe calling an LLM for sentiment analysis on the free text fields. Half a day max from zero to Good Enough. I didn't even have to open the API docs. Is it perfect? Of course not. But the previous state was one person spending half a day for _each_ survey doing that manually. Now the automation runs in a minute or so, depending on whether Google Sheets API is having a day or not =) |