Have Claude implement most of a day job's work
The poster gives Claude work tasks and has it implement most of the functionality, though the last 10% still takes the most time.
What they did
The poster built a simple .NET console app around Claude CLI and GitLab. Every 15 minutes it pulls assigned issues, classifies whether each one is ready, drafts a GitLab reply for unclear tickets, or starts Claude on the repo plus the issue text and image attachments; Claude then works on a new branch, opens a PR, and later applies PR comments, while the poster manually reviews and adjusts drafts before posting or merging.
How it went
They say it automated about 80% of the job and cut their hands-on time to roughly 2-3 hours a day for review and testing. On a recent masterdata feature, Claude produced most of a 2-3 hour task in 15-20 minutes, but the poster says it only works because they check every PR and still fix issues like style-guide adherence.
Worth knowing
Their practical catch was usage limits: they were on Claude Max, only started new implementations with more than 20% tokens left, and let the loop run overnight.
Labels
The poster gives Claude work tasks and has it implement most of the functionality
Have Claude implement most of a day job's work
Claude then works on a new branch, opens a PR, and later applies PR comments
the poster manually reviews and adjusts drafts before posting or merging
starts Claude on the repo plus the issue text and image attachments; Claude then works on a new branch, opens a PR, and later applies PR comments
The poster built a simple .NET console app around Claude CLI and GitLab.
They say it automated about 80% of the job and cut their hands-on time to roughly 2-3 hours a day for review and testing.
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- Claude
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- Source date
- Apr 11, 2026
- Accounts
- 1
- In registry since
- Oct 12, 2026