Comment by CPLX

I had the same vague impression as you did when using AI via browser/chat interaction. Like it’s very impressive but how useful is it really?

Using it via the CLI approach as an entirely different experience. It’s literally shocking what you can do.

For context, among many other things I have done this exact thing I am recommending. I just hit export on a Quickbooks instance of a complex multimillion dollar business and had Claude Code generate reports on various things I wanted to optimize and it just handles it in seconds.

The real limit to these tools is knowing what to ask for and stating the requirements clearly and incrementally. Once you get the hang of it, it’s literally shocking how many use cases you can find.