People who think asking Claude to help write a PowerShell script is cheating have never spent four hours debugging a typo in a string comparison at midnight. The rubber duck method works. This is just a rubber duck that talks back.

Writing a PowerShell script for your own use and writing one that someone else has to maintain are not the same skill. I learned that distinction the hard way, on a Tuesday afternoon, staring at 200 lines of logic I wrote six months earlier that I could barely read myself.

There’s a real difference between a script that automates something and a script that automated something once. One of them is infrastructure. The other is archaeology waiting to happen.