Yeah, I use Claude/ChatGPT sometimes for:
- Throwaway scripts: "write me a bash script to delete all merged git branches starting with 'foo'"
- Writing functions that are tedious to look up but I can fairly easily evaluate for correctness: "write a C function to spawn a process and capture stdout and stderr merged"
- Doing stuff in systems I'm not very familiar with: "write an OCaml function to copy a file"
I haven't got around to setting up any of that agentic stuff yet. Based on my experience of the chat stuff I'm a bit skeptical it will be good enough to be useful on anything of the complexity I work on. Find for CRUD apps but it's not going to understand niche compiler internals or do stuff with WASM runtimes that nobody has ever done before.