But I am not giving Claude a csv and saying 'clean it up'. I am asking it to write me a python script to clean it up. That way I can validate the script myself.
Think about it logically: Are you really sure you can validate the script yourself? If it takes you weeks to do what Claude does in some hours, it seems misplaced confidence in your capabilities.
There is, in fact, a large body of work studying classes of problems which are hard to solve but easy to verify. So I'm not sure why this kind of usage is a surprise to so many people.
I'm not sure that source code verification is such a problem. It feels like it's definitely easier to write code to solve a problem than to verify some code written by someone else is correct and fault free.
It's a lot easier to check the code / check the output of the code / spot verify than it is to do the work itself... if I'd write my own code, I'd still have to verify (bc I trust my own coding ability even less than Claude lol)
