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CYC26 / AI

Beyond Autocomplete: Using Claude to Navigate and Analyze More Data Than You Could Ever Read

Every technical field eventually drowns in more data than anyone could read by hand — logs, sensors, transactions, measurements, whatever your domain calls it. The usual fix is to keep writing scripts: one to summarize, one to filter, one to test the next idea, then another, and another — forever chasing the data instead of getting ahead of it. This talk is about a different way to work. Instead of writing the test yourself, you describe what you want and what success looks like — and Claude helps figure out what to look at, what to try next, and when to stop, guided by the data itself rather than a script you wrote in advance.

Session abstract

What you’ll learn

Every technical field eventually drowns in more data than anyone could read by hand — logs, sensors, transactions, measurements, whatever your domain calls it. The usual fix is to keep writing scripts: one to summarize, one to filter, one to test the next idea, then another, and another — forever chasing the data instead of getting ahead of it. This talk is about a different way to work. Instead of writing the test yourself, you describe what you want and what success looks like — and Claude helps figure out what to look at, what to try next, and when to stop, guided by the data itself rather than a script you wrote in advance.