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No. I've been a sysadmin before and know how to write the files from scratch. But Claude is like having a very fast intern I can tell to do the boring part for me and review the work, so it takes 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes.

But if I didn't know how to do it myself, it'd be useless- the subtle bugs Claude occasionally includes would be showstopper issues instead of a quick fix.



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