AI Agentic Engineering - Claude Code

[YoDoug]

What are the items or tasks you are using Claude Cowork?

Trying to decide which Ai is best for what I do daily.

IMO, Claude has the best tools for everyday business.

Cowork use example. We have 22 machines that run unattended every night. We lose downtime from alarms/shutdowns/out of parts/etc. We were questioning if having a small second shift would keep the machines running more. It was really just a guess or gut feeling before Claude. I gave Cowork access to our Scytec data collection through the Claude Chrome plugin. It pulled 90 days of alarm history. then it filtered for 5PM to 6AM. Depending on the age of the machines the alarm data can be a simple code or a very long full description. I gave Cowork the Okuma alarm manuals and it found all the brief alarm description. Then I gave it parameters of time we would have second shift available to fix alarms. Put an estimated cost per hour for shift. Also gave it a cost of machine downtime in product value. It ran the analysis. I also gave it the task of analyzing the top 10 alarms to determine if better engineered solutions would be able to reduce the downtime without a second shift. In the end I had a clean 20 page report that gave us an actual data backed analysis. It showed we could gain back approx 50%-70% of our most common downtimes by better engineered solutions and planning versus adding the cost of a second shift. We ended with actionable data we could build a plan from. Without Cowork, this would have taken me aweeks or more to do on my own.

[YoDoug]

At this point it's like having an extra 24 year old working for me that's really organized

It allows me to do work that was always worth it, but I never had the time to do. Not just the quantity of output, the quality of the work is improved as well.

[YoDoug]

Hmm I want to try now, is this with OpenClaw?

I have not tried OpenClaw nor do I think I will. OpenClaw is AI without guard rails. IMO, not worth the risks.

Claude Code and Claude Cowork are available through the Anthropic Claude Desktop app.

[megatronprime]

I have not tried OpenClaw nor do I think I will. OpenClaw is AI without guard rails. IMO, not worth the risks.

Claude Code and Claude Cowork are available through the Anthropic Claude Desktop app.

Oh okay, so it's part of the product, this is really some system you've made!

It's amazing what's possible now compared to 5 years ago.

[Zoffen]

What are the items or tasks you are using Claude Cowork?

Trying to decide which Ai is best for what I do daily.

I gave it access to the project folder and asked it what the software did. It told me Comprehensive ERP system for a machine shop with many modules. Then it created a 5 page overview with bugs I should fix.

Since i developed it over a few years the earlier modules back end was written in a shitty way and the backend evolved as I sucked less at software dev. I asked to to look at the different types of backend fucntions and compare them. Then I told it to make the old ones like the new ones and it did it easily, fixing a few bugs at the same time.

I needed to add a "ASL-Survey" parameter to the "Contacts" Module so I can automatically email suppliers ASL-Surveys for AS9100 compliance. I asked it to do this. It modified the backend. Then modified all forms that needed it and added a checkbox in the right place.

This is mostly what claude code could do and i still have no idea what i'm doing with it but all i know is that this has become a priority over everything else. This will allow me to actually finish the software with all of the features i have envisioned. This is a 100x reduction in time and labor to make software. Simply amazing.

White collar jobs are over. 90% of people are cooked and they don't even know it.

[megatronprime]

I gave it access to the project folder and asked it what the software did. It told me Comprehensive ERP system for a machine shop with many modules. Then it created a 5 page overview with bugs I should fix.

Since i developed it over a few years the earlier modules back end was written in a shitty way and the backend evolved as I sucked less at software dev. I asked to to look at the different types of backend fucntions and compare them. Then I told it to make the old ones like the new ones and it did it easily, fixing a few bugs at the same time.

I needed to add a "ASL-Survey" parameter to the "Contacts" Module so I can automatically email suppliers ASL-Surveys for AS9100 compliance. I asked it to do this. It modified the backend. Then modified all forms that needed it and added a checkbox in the right place.

This is mostly what claude code could do and i still have no idea what i'm doing with it but all i know is that this has become a priority over everything else. This will allow me to actually finish the software with all of the features i have envisioned. This is a 100x reduction in time and labor to make software. Simply amazing.

White collar jobs are over. 90% of people are cooked and they don't even know it.

I did this tutorial 9 years ago, on winprog.org, it teaches you to make a window and resources in C using the win32 api, it's cool cause it's code that would run in 1998 and still would run today.

It really teaches you everything about the windows api and memory allocation.

I would recommend that to everyone making a large scale ui app, there are some things that chatbots don't know because they are trained on stack overflow, and the accepted answers are wrong lol

[megatronprime]

It's too bad Claude is a non starter for me,
I feel left out lol

[YoDoug]

I did this tutorial 9 years ago, on winprog.org, it teaches you to make a window and resources in C using the win32 api, it's cool cause it's code that would run in 1998 and still would run today.

It really teaches you everything about the windows api and memory allocation.

I would recommend that to everyone making a large scale ui app, there are some things that chatbots don't know because they are trained on stack overflow, and the accepted answers are wrong lol

LOL. $500B investment in AI gobbling up thousands of the brightest minds in computer science and you think they are training it to program on stack exchange.

[megatronprime]

LOL. $500B investment in AI gobbling up thousands of the brightest minds in computer science and you think they are training it to program on stack exchange.

And other sources yes, GitHub etc, openai actually partnered with stack overflow to get the full data in 2024, it's not entirely trained only on that one site, but it's one of the sources, anthropic I don't think has openly stated that they use stack overflow, but they said they use what's available on the open internet so it's likely.

The reason behind that is you need massive amounts of data to train a model, so they use what's available

[Zoffen]

Creating reports for my AS9100 stuff. I already had a quality report that looked at NCRs and calculated quality percentage. I just told claude to look at how this was done but i want a report for ontime delivery by comparing the target ship date in the work order with the shipping timestamp. Took it 2 minutes then had 6 errors when building. I gave it those errors and it fixed it. It Even added the headless versions of the functions as well if i just want the data and not a form.

If you look at the code it looks exactly how i (Probably) would have wrote it.

After i get this whole system dialed in i might open source the whole thing just to throw a huge monkey wrench into the erp industry.....

[YoDoug]

It's too bad Claude is a non starter for me,
I feel left out lol

I'm curious why you say that

[megatronprime]

I'm curious why you say that

We have certain limitations to which tools we are allowed to use, we only use copilot 365 right now for tasks requiring an advanced model, we also use some local models and frameworks for running agents, but it's not the premium agent experience you get with Claude ofc