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Every once in a while you find yourself caught between two warring bureaucratic processes. This was me back in 2024, while I was trying to finalize my immigration paperwork. I was missing a key document that only Cook County (the Chicago district I lived in at the time) could provide. The only problem was that their standard document format didn’t satisfy USCIS’s specific requirements, and I was quickly running out of time. ...

The other day, I was working on translating data from a file into json to visualize the results. Easy enough, given that this was an operation I’d done countless times in the past. Still, I blanked. After spending months delegating all coding related tasks to an agent, I’d completely lost the muscle memory of a simple fs.readFileSync call. I ended up sheepishly reaching for Claude, which wrote the function in more time than past me would have taken. ...