> I struggle to believe that a ton of seemingly intelligent software engineers are too dumb to figure out how to use Claude code to get reliable results.

They're not dumb, but I'm not surprised they're struggling.

A developer's mindset has to change when adding AI into the mix, and many developers either can’t or won’t do that. Developers whose commits that look something like "Fixed some bugs" probably aren’t going to take the time to write a decent prompt either.

Whenever there's a technology shift, there are always people who can't or won't adapt. And let's be honest, there are folks whose agenda (consciously or not) is to keep the status quo and "prove" that AI is a bad thing.

No wonder we're seeing wildly different stories about the effectiveness of coding agents.