Why is Claude Code So Popular?
My Thoughts
Developer's Digest is my go to for all things AI on Youtube. It's very thoughtful, measured, teaches me new things all the time... and more importantly it's not engagement farming.
This video I watched just recently after being a relatively late adopter of Claude Code (I was definitely an early adopter of Cursor, and hung on for probably too long).Looking back after using Claude Code for around month now I think this hits the nail on the head. The reason it's so great is because it's so good with the fundamentals, with using the terminal and tool calling essentially. It's going to be interesting to see how much better it gets. I still miss having a nice UI for diff viewing, and feel that it makes you feel more a part of the development flow, and makes reading the code more of a part of the process.
If you haven't seen this channel, definitely check it out. I'm sure there will be more thought provoking content now. The number of views compared to the quality of the content is criminally low.
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