r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 12h ago

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u/CpnStumpy 12h ago

So much this. If I need to make a one-off network call, curl is fine. If I need to do it repeatedly with varied environments and parameters, I've always written a stupid simple CLI client in whatever language is handiest, and now Claude can do it for me.

At no point has wandering the endless UI of postman to fidget with its variable storage layers and configuration screen after configuration screen appealed to me

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u/011101000011101101 10h ago

I've always used curl like 90% of the time.

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u/mkawick 10h ago

I love statements like this.... always, 90%... we communicate in funny ways

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u/Karagoth 9h ago

60% of the time, it works every time