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2025

Claude doesn't make me much faster on the work that I am an expert on. Maybe 15-20% depending on the day.

It's the work that I don't know how to do and would have to research. Or the grunge work I don't even want to do. On this it is hard to even put a number on. Many of the projects I do with Claude day to day I just wouldn't have done at all pre-Claude.

Infinity% improvement in productivity on those.

Aaron Boodman

# 28th October 2025, 2:08 am / ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, claude, aaron-boodman

2005

Fixing MSDN with Greasemonkey

Site specific browser customisations have been a a recurring theme on this site over the past six months. Thanks to the ever inventive Aaron Boodman that problem is pretty much solved. Greasemonkey is a plugin for Firefox that lets you create user site customisation scripts (.script.js), easily install them in Firefox and then set which sites they should be run on. Michael Moncur has a handy tutorial on getting started.

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