Last week, I watched two very different developers encounter Claude Code for the first time. The contrast in their reactions perfectly captures the tension I’ve been feeling about AI coding assistants lately. For those unfamiliar, Claude Code is Anthropic’s AI-powered coding assistant that can read, write, and edit code across your entire codebase. Unlike traditional autocomplete tools, it can understand context across multiple files, execute commands, run tests, and even browse the web f...
