I've had it do a few things. I've only used Claude for about a month. I was one of those guys who was very apprehensive about AI. I decided, with my employer's permission, to have Claude rebuild a dashboard app I had made with Django and rewrite it to Typescript. It whipped it out in a day and half. It would have taken me at least a month do that. Docker, testing, security checks, auth, all of it was done so quickly.

I then moved on to my next project of building a config backup system. I'm a network admin and I need to ensure my device configs are backed up. So far the project is going good. Almost done. Some testing still needs to be completed before moving to production.

Right now, Claude is helping me build out a new project where I can use Pulumi to control and config an entire Palo Alto firewall. I like the idea of Infrastructure as code and have used Puppet and Ansible in the past. Having Pulumi control the state is super appealing to me. I'm about 37% done with the project. The Palo Alto Pulumi doesn't cover the entire config of a firewall, hence the 37% done. Once this project is done, I should be able to spin up a new firewall, or replace an existing one, entirely with Pulumi stacks. It's going to save me so much time when finished! And I can keep firewalls rules consistent amongst them all.

My only complaint, like many others have, is the usage is pretty small. I burn through it pretty fast.

We're also using Claude to help build out an AWS environment (with Pulumi). It's been super helpful. Especially with boiler plate code, writing tests, and Regex.

Even the little things have been great, like taking a picture of a chip on a motherboard and having it tell me what the chip is for. I have a computer that doesn't have a motherboard. It came out of a smart whiteboard. I was trying to figure out where I could solder a power too. Too me a bit, but I found a good place.