> Your idea of the average person might be biased if you work and socialise with people who have this kind of expertise.

I just said I've seen multiple people struggle installing Steam...

The point is that it's something objectively easy. Once they find (in this case, given by me) the correct instructions and follow through, they can easily do it by themselves again. It's quite different from what are traditionally considered "expertise": for example, even if you followed a master's painting process, stroke by stroke, tomorrow you still don't know how to paint.

Building common apps were more akin to "painting," now it's "installing Steam."

You are assuming that the hypothetical friend has been isolated from any kind of technology from the last few decades. The friend can, presumably, use search engines and the very same chip chipities to get the very rudimentary domain knowledge going.

I'm genuinely a bit floored reading the comments here, but I guess my idea of the average HN commenter's ability to talk to non-technical folks about technical topics is biased because I work and socialize with lots of people who don't have technical expertise (thankfully along with other technical folks who also have lots of experience talking to the former group). Many of them don't even know what Claude is, let alone Claude Code.