--- title: I used Claude Code to build a utility that fetches files... description: A developer used Claude Code to build a lightweight Python utility (820 lines, ~30KB) that lets users find files by describing them in plain English rather... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-used-claude-code-to-build-a-utility-that-fetches-files-by-the-way-i-describe-it-and-it-s-better-t-lqxx4ny52 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I used Claude Code to build a utility that fetches files by the way I describe it, and it's better than any file explorer I've used | daily.dev og:description: A developer used Claude Code to build a lightweight Python utility (820 lines, ~30KB) that lets users find files by describing them in plain English rather... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-used-claude-code-to-build-a-utility-that-fetches-files-by-the-way-i-describe-it-and-it-s-better-t-lqxx4ny52 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lQxx4Ny52.png og:image:alt: I used Claude Code to build a utility that fetches files by the way I describe it, and it's better than any file explorer I've used og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I used Claude Code to build a utility that fetches files by the way I describe it, and it's better than any file explorer I've used **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer used Claude Code to build a lightweight Python utility (820 lines, ~30KB) that lets users find files by describing them in plain English rather than remembering exact filenames. The tool indexes a directory into a local SQLite database, passes natural language queries to Claude Haiku to extract intent, and returns results in milliseconds — even on directories with 87,000 files. A local fallback parser handles basic queries without an API key. The author argues this outperforms Windows Search for natural language queries and criticizes Microsoft for failing to apply AI to obvious usability problems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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