Boris Cherny posted about users who automated plant growth monitoring and oven control with Claude Code. URL uptime monitoring is another common use. The pattern behind all of these: tell Claude what to watch and when to notify you. Claude writes the script.
You don't need to know Python or bash to set this up. You describe the behavior: "Check this API endpoint every minutes. If the response time is over seconds, send me a Slack message."
You walk away with a working script that runs on a schedule. I use a version of this to monitor a staging server.