I was working on 2 Jira tickets (A "Jira ticket" is basically a work request form) at the same time and inadvertently got them mixed up:
- putting files and updates in one ticket folder that was ment for the other
- and vice/versa
- Referencing one ticket in a file that was meant for the other
- Got thoroughly confused when I discovered what had happened.
- It was too early in the morning for my brain to wrap around it and easily correct it, especially when there was a deadline coming to complete both tickets.
I had to get this sorted out, and FAST, and ACCURATELY!
I exported the XML of both Jira tickets, saved them to my one dir and used Claude Code in that dir. I told it the situation and that:
1. the ticket #'s can ONLY be trusted in the 2 ticket XML files.
2. Create subdirs for each ticket
3. Review each file and determine which ticket it REALLY belongs to.
4. Copy the files to the appropriate ticket subdirs.
5. Rename them appropriately.
6. Change references in the files, if they're wrong.
7. Log everything you did and why.
I then reviewed it for my own sanity. Saw it did make ONE mistake, talked to it about it, just to make sure, and it agreed, and fixed it.
Then I was both confident I had things sorted out and was ready to move on to completing my work.
The amount of stress this removed was incredible!
No AI was involved in writing this particular AI tip.