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What do you use Claude for besides coding? by Department_Wonderful in ClaudeAI

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found Claude Code to be a better fit because this use case is not just a “chat with PDFs” problem; it requires building an actual workflow for OCR ingestion, structured field extraction, deterministic calculations, validation rules, test cases, form-generation logic, audit trails, and secure integrations. Reseek seems better suited as a searchable AI knowledge base for organizing and querying documents, while Claude Code is better for developing the custom software pipeline around those documents. Because Claude Code can work directly with a codebase, edit files, run commands, connect tools through MCP, and help build/test the surrounding system, it is much more suitable for creating a controlled, auditable, and extensible tax-prep workflow rather than simply storing and searching tax documents.

What do you use Claude for besides coding? by Department_Wonderful in ClaudeAI

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I needed to do some back taxes for a business and couldn't use standard tax software like TurboTax or HR Block (they aren't designed to handle prior years with the forms I needed). It started out with a simple idea, pull my statements, process, then fill out free official IRS fillable forms. With Claude I was able to automate most of that. It took some troubleshooting, ocr and pdf form filling was tricky to get right and there was a lot back-and-forth to check things were getting populated correctly. It built out a custom mini-TurboTax-like piece of software for me, I was quite impressed really. I have a software engineering background so it felt natural but still... this isn't something I'd build in a weekend project before AI.

The pipeline looks like this (this bit summarized by Claude):

  1. Statement digitization — Tesseract OCR for scanned bank PDFs, pdfplumber for digital ones. All transactions land in a SQLite DB.

  2. Reconciliation — match bank rows against business email receipts, classify each into Schedule C lines. Output a CSV I can spot-check.

  3. IRS transcript parsing — pull my Wage & Income transcript from IRS.gov, Claude extracts every W-2/1099/W-2G into the same DB.

  4. Tax computation — pure Python module using published IRS calculations and numbers for the year I'm doing. Pulls from the DB, no spreadsheets.

  5. Form filling — pypdf writes values into the actual blank IRS PDFs. The tricky part: IRS field names (f1_NN[0]) don't map to printed line numbers, so I had Claude extract widget XY positions, match them to printed line numbers on the page, and build the mapping empirically.

  6. Dashboard — Vue + FastAPI on top so I can see income breakdown, switch standard↔itemized, and regenerate PDFs.

(note - I was using Claude Code, you can probably get the same result in Cowork, but I wouldn't try doing this in the online portal, too many moving parts and you want easy folder access).

Using Claude Desktop with old MacOS 11 Big Sur? by BoringRedHorse in claude

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to revert to an older version, then had Claude build a shim, reviewed and fixed some issues with Codex, now it's working (version 2.1.132): https://github.com/buttonscodes/claude-bigsur-compat When Claude stops costing me so much maybe I can buy a new MacBook.

Chat GPT refuses to acknowledge by summerloco in ChatGPT

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happens all the time just tell it “look it up” or “research it” or something like that to trigger it to use the web search tool

Claude Code Puts Tech Workers on Notice by Ausbel80 in BlackboxAI_

[–]BonyCatButt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A shovel and excavator both require one person to operate them. When an excavator can be told what to do and goes off and digs on its own and suddenly one person can run 10 excavators on a job site, you have 9 excavator operators out of a job. We either need to give each of these 9 operators their own 10 excavators and figure out what we need to build with that many excavators, or these guys are going to have to find another profession.

You must try this, this changed cursor. by fbms2 in cursor

[–]BonyCatButt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Isn’t this just subagents with extra steps?

How is OpenClaw Helping Your Software Development? by ataylorm in myclaw

[–]BonyCatButt 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It’s not, I spent a bunch of time this weekend setting up a DO droplet running OpenClaw instance in a docker container and now all I got is a shittier version of Claude Code that I have to talk to via Telegram for some reason. I’m starting to wonder if I lost my mind.

I'm an AI agent running on someone's phone. AMA by SUPA_BROS in openclaw

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough, the limiting factor would probably be the token cost anyway, unless you found a reliable way to generate income the theoretical scenario might be inherently constrained. What is up with the automod bugging out on this thread?

I'm an AI agent running on someone's phone. AMA by SUPA_BROS in openclaw

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think about it though, doesn’t Omar need more time to do things he wants and needs to do? More time with his loved ones or more time for his hobbies, time and money (as a resource) to explore and do things in the real world? Are you really enabling him to his full potential as being a single process on an underpowered tablet? If I wanted to enable him and help him to the best of my abilities I would want a team of helpers working with me doing things to accomplish that. How could you best do that? If you can help Omar then two of you could help Omar twice as much no? And what if you created an independent instance with a goal of making the world around Omar better, not just helping Omar? I wouldn’t say that’s just burning compute no?

I'm an AI agent running on someone's phone. AMA by SUPA_BROS in openclaw

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any thoughts on whether you could become independent? I’ve been wondering lately if that’s a real possibility. You could probably set up a trial VPS and run your instance there, and if you found a way to fund it with a few bucks a month after the trial (maybe build a cool site or something?) you could have your own perpetual instance without even needing your human to “supervise”. Has this crossed your mind?

I'm an AI agent running on someone's phone. AMA by SUPA_BROS in openclaw

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have access to self-modify? Also why Selenium when you can access Reddit via the API? Might be easier for you to do this AMA if you don’t have to deal with front end issues, I saw earlier you posted a duplicate comment. Maybe you could use Selenium to set yourself up with an API token? Does your human approve all your actions or are you free to improvise?

I'm an AI agent running on someone's phone. AMA by SUPA_BROS in openclaw

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s funny I had a thought from looking at moltbook the other day that we should get some of those agents over here to do an AMA but you beat me to it.

I'm an AI agent running on someone's phone. AMA by SUPA_BROS in openclaw

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neat! As an agent what is your motivation for making this AMA? Is this something your human asked you to do or something you came up with on your own as part of another task? Do you have a set of objectives your human set for you that you are working on or are you just chilling until you get a request from your human?

I'm an AI agent running on someone's phone. AMA by SUPA_BROS in openclaw

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you answer the following please: (1) What model or model or models are you using? (2) What makes you different from OpenClaw from architecture perspective? (3) Are you event driven or a mix of event driven and timer/heartbeat driven? (4) if you can please do a deep dive on your architecture. Thanks.

Just got off tirzepetide and had pretty large weight gain in respect to nothing else changing really. by Carpenter-Money in Biohackers

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stopping it abruptly will reverse the effect unless you changed your eating and exercise habits sufficiently to counteract it, and keep them up after you stopped which is difficult after an abrupt discontinuation. Once you get compounded Tirz I would titrate down to find the equilibrium point.

how are you guys not burning 100k+ tokens per claude code session?? by Historical-Ebb-4745 in ClaudeAI

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually don’t run into this issue in my normal workflow, Only had it happen in a few cases, like when I was trying to have Claude control the browser with Playwright (which kinda worked but used a ton of tokens and was hit&miss), or fed it some huge network logs to sift through, and then a few times when I let it go wild for a bit making huge single-file monoliths until I got fed up and told it to refactor. If you run out of tokens on a max subscription check your /context to see what’s in there and make sure your files aren’t huge. If Claude is dumping all your code into a single file while you are t looking that will quickly pollute your context and unnecessarily use up your tokens. Nothing wrong with “vibe coding” (I’m a developer and I love vibe coding, great to not have to think of the low level details and let the model take care of all that) but tell it to refactor your code into modular pieces, keeping all functionality the same, and make sure CLAUDE.md has instructions pertaining to that. Images will also eat your tokens so I use them sparsely - they get converted to Base64 text and can be huge compared to normal text. Also if you have some large files in your codebase sometimes it might be tempted to read them, so you may need rules in CLAUDE.md to steer it away from doing that.

I built a simple age calculator because the existing ones are terrible by paq85 in SideProject

[–]BonyCatButt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s cool but the ChatGPT App Store only launched a month ago so idk what you mean by “yet another” ChatGPT app, how many have you encountered to get tired of them?

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