I’ve committed more code in the last 6 days on personal projects than in the last 6 years. I’m building complete web apps in a weekend. I’m tuning how I break tasks up for it; it’s about eager intern level in the size of tasks I can assign it, that helps to minimize over engineering ime. It will try to cheat tests from time to time, which is amusing. Honestly though it all feels like magic. More on reddit.com

It's hard to explain to someone if they haven't been involved in the industry for a while. Now I get to run through 15 or 20 ancient and terrible private GitHub repos to the measure to make something out of something or dump it Every new idea that I put into a voice note or scratch Pad now has legs. Redid my old rickety website with fantastic new technology and every new idea I had I simply threw it into a voice note practically while it was working on it for a real time edit and update as I was looking on the second monitor via npm run dev. Old semi-impossible thoughts are now reality. Taking scraps of data into a project and building a Neo 4j graph with all the security and bells and whistles with a Next JS front end with correlation and schema and analysis... is a day. Maybe a weekend to really snaz it up. Structured workflows with mcp tools like playwright, Serena, Synk, sequential thinking, context 7, allows full cradle to grave Construction of a highly performant Enterprise product practically Within an eight hour working window. Parallel agent handoff is insane. A2A is a thing. Some of the newer Gemini models are quite good. An extensive line of business historically now has fresh awesomeness. Cybersecurity log analisys SIEM  and API Construction happens at the speed of thought. My RMM has an API with almost executive level permissions and the dashboard is little wacky so we rebuild the entire thing to run locally and runs better with better reporting. The computer forensics business relied on old Windows programs with bad block storage bad file analysis and slow and clunky database and painful UI. Now? Rebuilt the entire thing into CLI and process images much faster much more cleanly and I get the analysis and Reporting exactly the way I want simply for asking. Also analyzes file structure and determines encryption and timeline and what it is and how to present it in ways I could never do with the UI and even thinks of new things to put into it. Magic. I'm struggling to leave the house :) blew past Pro in a day and trying to stay on 5x. More on reddit.com

I've had a very different experience -- although I recognise the issues you point out, especially when it runs away with itself and starts implementing something totally ridiculous. I've spent perhaps about 900-1000 USD and been able to construct a fully functional web application that we are now selling to customers (orders haven't been placed yet but they're incoming). I coded the original version of this back in the early 2000s and decided, as an experiment, to rearchitect everything from zero with Claude Code. I'd say the result has been simply brilliant. The first rough version was accessible for the team to start testing within about 20 minutes. I made some mistakes though. I got carried away and ended up telling it to do this-and-that. It never says no, of course, so I very quickly ended up with a super-over-engineered set of approaches. I actually had to roll those back! I have kept control of the fundamental architecture and approach myself. Quite a few times I've had to ask it to modify an existing function or class rather than simply add yet another one -- and that's probably one of the more frustrating aspects. Ask it to do something and it will. Occasionally it will do it the *best* way. Occasionally it will throw out some code and ... the function works. Right there in the browser. You click. You get the result. Buuuuuuut behind this, I then discover lots of extra empty or half used database tables and lots and lots of extra code that isn't necessary. This itself isn't a problem - because the thing *does* work. We're delighted. We're seeing complicated annoying features coming to life in literal minutes. It's when you want to modify things that it can get complicated. Because now you've got hundreds of functions to search, each doing ONE thing. So when Claude tries to modify that *single* function... sometimes it's fine... but sometimes it breaks another thing... and another... and before you know it, you've got chaos. So I'd suggest that the 'dream' isn't quite there -- that is, it being able to 'do everything'. But as I got to understand its capabilities, I began to give it point tasks. I took control of the higher level thinking. Now it's incredibly efficient for me -- and, it's costing me pennies or cents rather than dozens of dollars for every key update. I've learned to ask the right questions and issue the right commands. Hats off to the Anthropic team - I'm deeply impressed. But as the OP points out, it needs to be used in the most effective way or it can quickly burn through API credit. More on reddit.com

I've made posts about this. Yep. Claude Code is amazing. I canceled the cursor sub, which became relative trash. Instead, I just went with $100 Claude Max plan. Have been insanely productive the last week. More on reddit.com