The words are all still stupid because it's a new thing, but there is one specific space that I find it just impossible to deny the way that there are already tools on the market that change the way the job is done:

Claude can turn plain english statements about what data I want from what different parts of the Microsoft 365 administration ecosphere into scripts that take all that data, transform it the way I want it transformed, and turn it into spreadsheets, pivot tables, data manipulation macros, and everything else I need to answer questions which are really hard to answer from the MS web interface. I can ask things like "Which systems have any of these three known vulnerable apps?" or "What software is common to everyone working in this division of the company?"

It's boring stuff, but it makes a world of difference in terms of what I can look at to base my decisions on. I spent less time building repeatable reports for each type of object I need to think about (device, application, user) than I did building even one report for one assessment in years past without automation. And it's not constantly asking the LLM to do things for me, it's building a couple of tools with a much faster iterative process for feature tweaks or debugging than could take place as an interaction between two people. I was making changes to scripts

I'm using it only for specific work areas where I already know the APIs I just don't have the time to stumble through the gather and collate of the various data. Based on the level of complexity of the tools I've been able to build I would say that anybody who knows how to describe the data they work with most could use a tool like this to make that process a lot more automatic. We're not ready for the tool to do the work without human oversight, but we're ready for anybody who works with stacks of data to build their own automation instead of having it built for them.