This is what put me off Claude Code. When I wanted. To dig in, I tried to watch a few Youtube videos to see an expert's opinion it, and 90% people who talk about it feel like former crypto shills, who, from their channel history, seem like have never written a single line of code without AI in their lives.
As someone who doesn't keep track of the influencer scene at the moment because I am way addicted to building...
You should totally give Claude Code a try. The biggest problem is that it is glaze-optimized, so have to work at getting it to not treat you like the biggest genius of all time. But when you manage to get in a good flow with it, and your project is very predictably searchable, results start to be quite helpful, even if just to unstuck yourself when you're in a rut.
This. Claude Code was the only one to be able to grok my 20 year old C++ codebase so that I could update things deep in it's bowels to make it compile because I neglected it on a thumb drive for 15 years. I had no mental model of what was going on. Claude built one in a few minutes.
I will try it. I did use Cursor agents beforehand (using Sonnet/Opus 4), and my problems were that it was slower than I was (meaning me prompting AI), and was not good enough to leave it unattended.
It annoys me to experience the huge discrepancy between content on social media on AI versus actual enterprise use. AI is happening, it's absolutely becoming integral parts of many businesses including our own. But these guys are just doodling in MS Paint and they're flooding the channels.
Enterprises are in the same situation as you are. Many of them are posting marketing about AI without actually having AI. They are using OpenAI API's to say they have AI.
I can count on my hands the number of enterprises that actually have AI models of their own.
just curious, why does an enterprise have to have their own model? company can use ____ (someone else’s model) and still accomplish amazing AI shit in their products
Because I am not permitted to share my code nor client information/data with unapproved third parties; it’s a contractual obligation. So; we train our own models to do those things.
I use Claude Code for building products that don’t have these limitations. And fuck is it amazing. Even little things that would have taken days are done in a single line of text.
> Many of them are posting marketing about AI without actually having AI. They are using OpenAI API's to say they have AI.
And somehow these companies are now "AI companies", just like in the 2010s your average food market down the street was a "tech company" or the bakery next to it is now a "blockchain company". This happens all the time with bubbles and mania.
These enterprises today appear even more confused about what they do to rebrand themselves and it's a sign they are desperate for survival.
