FWIW, inspired by Justis, I’ve been keeping up a list of things that I could usefully automate with Claude Code (or similar) for my own personal productivity, adding to the list every time something pops into my head. I’ve been adding to the list for the past three weeks. But so far it’s a very underwhelming list! Here’s ~the whole thing:
Custom interface for composing tweet-threads, including their funny formula for counting characters (I have some complaints about the built-in twitter one, e.g. I usually also post them onto bluesky)
…And something similar for clipboard conversion from simple HTML into the abstruse “typst” format that I was using a few weeks ago for a particular project.
One-click way to move certain things to my Trello to-do list, e.g.
LessWrong notifications
Interesting-looking papers or links to read from social media (twitter, slack, discord)
Emails
Anyway, all of these seem like they would save me a pathetically small amount of time, and so I haven’t bothered to install Claude Code yet. But someday the list will be longer, or I will be bored and curious enough to do it regardless.
Meanwhile, I 80/20’d the second one (clipboard normalizer) just using a normal LLM chat interface: Gemini one-shotted a nice HTML + javascript solution that I stored locally and bookmarked. It adds an extra couple seconds compared to an app or chrome extension, but whatever, I don’t use it that often anyway.
I’ll keep brainstorming, but I dunno, I really don’t seem to do much that can be automated at all, and that I haven’t already automated years ago in the old-fashioned way (e.g. I have long had automatic file backups, automatic credit card payments, automatic bank transfers, automatic citation downloading, etc.)
FWIW, inspired by Justis, I’ve been keeping up a list of things that I could usefully automate with Claude Code (or similar) for my own personal productivity, adding to the list every time something pops into my head. I’ve been adding to the list for the past three weeks. But so far it’s a very underwhelming list! Here’s ~the whole thing:
Custom interface for composing tweet-threads, including their funny formula for counting characters (I have some complaints about the built-in twitter one, e.g. I usually also post them onto bluesky)
Jeff’s “clipboard normalizer” (but I have a PC not Mac)
…And something similar for clipboard conversion from simple HTML into the abstruse “typst” format that I was using a few weeks ago for a particular project.
One-click way to move certain things to my Trello to-do list, e.g.
LessWrong notifications
Interesting-looking papers or links to read from social media (twitter, slack, discord)
Emails
Anyway, all of these seem like they would save me a pathetically small amount of time, and so I haven’t bothered to install Claude Code yet. But someday the list will be longer, or I will be bored and curious enough to do it regardless.
Meanwhile, I 80/20’d the second one (clipboard normalizer) just using a normal LLM chat interface: Gemini one-shotted a nice HTML + javascript solution that I stored locally and bookmarked. It adds an extra couple seconds compared to an app or chrome extension, but whatever, I don’t use it that often anyway.
I’ll keep brainstorming, but I dunno, I really don’t seem to do much that can be automated at all, and that I haven’t already automated years ago in the old-fashioned way (e.g. I have long had automatic file backups, automatic credit card payments, automatic bank transfers, automatic citation downloading, etc.)