After 16 years of coding professionally, I can say Claude Code has made me considerably better at the things that I had to bang my head against the wall to learn. For things I need to learn that are novel to me, for productivity sake, it’s been “easy come; easy go” like any other learning experience.

My two cents are:

If your goal is learning fully, I would prioritize the slow & patient route (no matter how fast “things” are moving.)

If your goal is to learn quickly, Claude Code and other AI tooling can be helpful in that regard. I have found using “ask” modes more than “agent” modes (where available) can go a long way with that. I like to generate analogies, scenarios, and mnemonic devices to help grasp new concepts.

If you’re just interested in getting stuff done, get good at writing specs and letting the agents run with it, ensuring to add many tests along the way, of course.

I perceive there’s at least some value in all approaches, as long as we are building stuff.