I kept hearing about Claude Code for a while and never really tried it until a week ago. I used it to prototype some Mac app ideas and I quickly realized how useful it was at getting prototypes up and running very, very quickly, like within minutes. It saves so much time with boilerplate code that I would've had to type out by hand and have done hundreds of times before.

With my experience, I wonder what the author of this blog post has tried to do to complete a task as that might make a difference on why they couldn't get much use out of it. Maybe other posters can chime in on how big of a difference programming language and size of project can make. I did find that it was able to glean how I had architected an app and it was able to give feedback on potential refactors, although I didn't ask it to go that far.

Prior to trying out Claude Code, I had only used ChatGPT and DeepSeek to post general questions on how to use APIs and frameworks and asking for short snippets of code like functions to do text parsing with regexes, so to be honest I was very surprised at what the state of the art could actually do, at least for my projects.