Claude Code is SO good!

Claude Code blew my mind. It is SO good!
I spent about a day with Claude Code fixing up old bugs on my website that I never made time to fix. The fixes are all in my private repo, but they were all the same bugs listed in the public one here.

What blew my mind is my mental shift from coding things myself to just asking it to do them for me. 10 minutes in and I stopped writing code myself. It still takes some back and forth, and it doesn't yet get everything right, but the fact that I didn't have to write code myself was a big shift.

What Claude Code did

  • Made my website responsive. 
    My website had a whole lot responsiveness problems. CSS is a tedious little monster and so I never got myself to learn Bootstrap and other front end frameworks.
    With Claude Code, I just had to tell it in English what I wanted it to do, and it did them exactly as I wanted them. No more CSS for me!
  • Added Dark Mode.
    I've always wanted dark mode. With Claude Opus 4 it basically three shotted it, changing all files that had to be changed. This would've taken me a whole day to do.

Here's why Claude Code is so good:

  • It reads code context and creates a gist for future instances of itself.
    Windsurf and Cursor didn't do this when I tried. They need you to @mention relevant files and folders you want the AI to read. That breaks the magical experience because it's still very much on me.
    Claude Code on the other hand reads the source files and creates a CLAUDE.md file that are used for future instances of itself.

  • Straight from the terminal
    LLMs are text mediums. Code is a text medium. The terminal is a text medium.
    It just makes so much sense to use LLMs from there.

    I used Windsurf and Cursor for a month on their paid plan, but the separate chat window feels like a forceful addition. Those IDEs solve the problem of copying things from LLM websites and just directly editing code in place, but their integration never really worked for me.

  • Claude Code lists out what it's going to do like a check list.
    This is my favorite thing it does. Whenever I use the website version of Claude, I ask it to create the steps it will do without writing any code. With Claude Code, you get that, but with a pretty UI.


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