A lot of the soft and hard sciences use hacky matplotlib code to produce results and visualisation, without being necessarily data science

From the bits I've seen, I'd take claude-generated code any time over that written by maths, physics, biology, linguistics people. Even though I've seen Claude make some super-big mistakes while doing data analysis I'd guess it's already more reliable than most academics trying to code.

This 100000x over. Nothing is worse than trying to productionize code coming from academics like this.