I had a couple of nice moments, like claude helping me with rust (which I don't understand) and claude finding a bug in a python library I was using

Also some not so nice moments (small rust changes were OK, but with a big one claude fumbled + I couldn't really verify that it worked so I didn't merge to code to master even when it seemingly worked)

I think it really helps to break the ice so to say. You no longer feel the tension, the pain of an empty page. You ask claude to write something, and improving something is so mentally easier

Also I mostly use claude as a spell checker / linter for the projects I'm too lazy to install proper tools for that. vim + claude, what else would you need

Luckily my company pays for the subscription, speding personal money on LLMs (especially on US LLMs) would feel strange for some reason. Ideally I want to own an LLM, have it at home but I am too lazy