What's the point in reading posts like this when the solution "they" came up with is basically, "tell Claude to make a script which does whatever"? I read blog posts to read thoughts from people, not computers

There is a difference between telling Claude to do something and actually doing it, and writing about it. The fact that this has 199 points as of writing this comments means people want to read about the results. You will probably be quite unhappy to learn that Claude write the majority of the blogpost as well -

"Hey claude read my previous posts and this script and generate a new blog post about this temp control stuff. Generate whatever plots you want. Here's how you can access my influxdb with the data. Here's how you can ssh into the Pi to get the exact running scripts. Ok here's my wordpress token - upload it and the pictures. Oh it looks like your .md to wordpress failed really bad, read a previous post to find out how to format stuff. Oh the tables are still not right, try again." <-- literally what I spent an hour doing last night and refining.

Maybe people would find that interesting as well!

Are you similarly frustrated that he didn't sit there 24/7, heating the oscillator with a small lighter when needed, but automated it instead? Why would this be more interesting for you if he'd written the script himself?

But here's the key insight: what's the point in reading posts where the post itself is "tell Claude to write a post about…"