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Strongly disagree. Claude Code is the most intuitive technology I've ever used-- way easier than learning to use even VS Code for example. It doesn't even take weeks. Maybe a day or two to get the hang of it and you're off to the races.

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The difference is AI tooling lies to you. Day 0 you think it's perfect but the more you use ai tools you realize using them wrong can give you gnarly bugs.

It's intuitive to use but hard to master

It took me a couple of days to find the right level of detail to prompt it. Too high level, and the codebase gets away from me/the tooling goes off the rails. Too low level, and I may as well do it myself. Maybe also learn the sorts of things Claude Code isn't good at yet. But once I got in the groove it was very easy from there. I think the whole process took 2-3 days.

Assuming you used AI before? Then yeah its the same.

If you never AI coded before then get ready for fun!

Don't underestimate the number of developers who aren't comfortable with tools that live in the terminal.

Well these people are left behind either way. Competent devs can easily learn to use coding assistants in a day or two

I actually don't use it in the terminal, I use the vs code extension. It's a better experience (bringing up the file being edited, nicer diffs, etc.) But both are trivial to pick up.

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