Original Reddit post

I thought AI would be ideal solution for the tedious task of making a schedule for multiple people who have different requests / away dates / vacations etc but I haven’t been able to prompt it to make one that actually works and satisifes 90%+ of my requirements. I tried first by giving Claude a list of everyone’s requirements and just letting it do its thing, but it took up most of my usage limit “thinking” and gave me garbage that violates many of the basic rules that I had given it (like no one can do back to back days). Then I tried to make it systematically person by person with the most restrictive people first, but it doesn’t loop back and make sure it meets the basic rules again. I had tried to make it follow a human scheduler’s algorithm essentially, but humans are better at “remembering” conflicts instead Claude has to write a new line of code to input schedule and to check it. It’s taken up more time than just doing it manually. Is there a better way to teach Claude how to do this? I am on Pro membership and just one or two iterations uses up my 5hr limit. submitted by /u/canibagthat

Originally posted by u/canibagthat on r/ClaudeCode