This is a good guide on how to use Claude code. My perspective (from an early adopter of LLMs for coding) is similar. Though, open code has a lot of potential as well. So I'm happy that Claude Code is not the only option. But a key aspect imo is that, using these tools is also a skill; And there's a lot of knowledge involved in making something good with the assistance of Claude code vs doing slop. Specially as soon as you deviate from a very basic application / work in a larger repo with multiple people. There's a layer of context that these tools don't quite have, and it's very difficult to consistently provide them with. I can see this being less the case as context windows and the reliability of larger context retrieval is solved.