They never had the time or energy for the backlog. Claude Code writes small, deterministic programs that do the work, and most of the scripts they'd wanted for years now exist.
Result Programs do the work, not the AI each time
“A couple of months after I started using Claude Code, most of them exist.”
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They used Claude Code to write deterministic computer programs that then perform the actual work, rather than doing tasks by hand themselves. They had a backlog of ‘nice to have scripts’ they had wanted to write for years but couldn’t find the time and energy for.
A couple of months after they started using Claude Code, most of the scripts in the backlog exist. They say it has saved them a lot of time.
List the small, deterministic scripts or tools you've wanted to write for yourself but never got around to, like a file organizer, a report generator, or a backup checker. Pick one from the list and ask Claude Code to write it as a standalone program you can run yourself, rather than doing the task by hand. Work through the backlog one script at a time.
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.