They needed tooling to spawn a Go proxy and run integration tests, using only Perl's standard library. Claude Code wrote most of it, and it beat their usual shell scripts for stability.
Result More stable than their usual shell scripts
“I used Claude Code to write the bulk of it and found Claude to be remarkable good at Perl.”
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Wanted a simple way to spawn a proxy they were building in Go and to write integration tests for it. Had Claude Code write the bulk of it in Perl, told to use only what’s built into Perl’s standard library and nothing from CPAN.
HTTP clients, TLS and JSON all turned out to be built in, which made it a stable, easy replacement for what they’d normally write as shell scripts. Their theory: Perl has changed little and has lots of training data.
Write a Perl script that [starts my service and runs these integration tests: describe them]. Use only modules from Perl's core standard library, nothing from CPAN. Include HTTP requests, JSON parsing and TLS where needed, clear error messages, and a short usage section at the top.
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.