I've been allowing LLMs to do more "background" work for me. Giving me some room to experiment with stuff so that I can come back in 10-15 minutes and see what it's done.
The key things I've come to are that it HAS to be fairly limited. Giving it a big task like refactoring a code base won't work. Giving it an example can help dramatically. If you haven't "trained" it by giving it context or adding your CLAUDE.md file, you'll end up finding it doing things you don't want it to do.
Another great task I've been giving it while I'm working on other things is generating docs for existing features and modules. It is surprisingly good at looking at events and following those events to see where they go and generating diagrams and he like.
I've been allowing LLMs to do more "background" work for me. Giving me some room to experiment with stuff so that I can come back in 10-15 minutes and see what it's done.
The key things I've come to are that it HAS to be fairly limited. Giving it a big task like refactoring a code base won't work. Giving it an example can help dramatically. If you haven't "trained" it by giving it context or adding your CLAUDE.md file, you'll end up finding it doing things you don't want it to do.
Another great task I've been giving it while I'm working on other things is generating docs for existing features and modules. It is surprisingly good at looking at events and following those events to see where they go and generating diagrams and he like.