Let Claude handle most routine implementation work

A developer wired Claude into issue handling so it could draft, code, and revise work while they focused on review and testing.

Done with Claude· Advanced· Apr 2026

What they did
They connected a simple .NET console app to Claude CLI and GitLab, then had it check assigned issues every 15 minutes. For each ticket, it judged whether the request was ready, wrote a reply for unclear cases, or sent Claude the repo, the issue text, and any attached images. Claude worked on a branch, opened a pull request, and then revised it after comments, while the developer manually reviewed drafts before posting or merging.
How it went
They say this covered about 80% of the job and left them with roughly 2-3 hours a day of hands-on review and testing. On one masterdata feature, Claude turned a 2-3 hour task into 15-20 minutes of initial work, but the last stretch still took the most time because they checked every pull request and fixed issues like style-guide fit.
Tips
This only works well if you keep a close review loop and expect to clean up the final details yourself. They also had to watch usage limits, start new work only when more than 20% of tokens remained, and sometimes let the process run overnight.

Try it yourself with Claude

You are helping with a real engineering task. Use the repository, issue description, and any attached screenshots or docs: [paste task details]. First decide whether the request is clear enough to start. If anything is ambiguous, draft a short reply I can send to ask for clarification, and stop there until I approve it. If it is ready, make the smallest sensible implementation, explain your approach briefly, and list anything still incomplete, risky, or needing human judgment. End with a checklist of testing, review, and merge steps for me to do next. Do not send messages, open pull requests, merge changes, delete anything, or make any external changes until I explicitly approve.

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