Devoxx: Not just code Abusing Claude Code to do just about anything but coding By Barry van Someren

Not just code: abusing Claude Code for everything but coding

Barry van Someren straps a frontier LLM to his terminal and uses Claude to do wild ops tasks—spinning up dev clusters, debugging network snafus, running user-specific scripts (skip the managers!), and even automating compliance with a power-saving law. The result? Config scripts, audit reports and a sweet 15% cut in the power bill, all without elaborate prompt engineering or hallucination debates.

You’ll walk away with:

• Real-world tips for the Ops side of DevOps (and how to dodge the Oops)
• Prompts that tackle compliance, reporting and more, not just code
• Stories of hard limits and some lightly questionable shortcuts that actually work
• A peek at the next wave of open models like Mistral powering up If you’ve ever wanted your terminal to just figure it out, this talk is your jam.

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