I've used Claude Code since it came out. I started using it every day about two months after release, back in early 2025. I never switched away.
I don't tool-hop. Switching tools feels like progress. It's not. It's just a nicer way to procrastinate. One tool I know deeply beats a new one every month.
Tool-hopping
One tool, deep
Feels like progress
Is progress
New syntax every month
Principles that last
Restart at zero each time
Knowledge compounds
I stopped caring about syntax. AI writes the syntax now. And syntax is the part that changes the fastest. Learn it deep and it's gone next year. So I don't put my time there.
I put my time into the stuff that lasts.
- How to design a system.
- How to think about the product and orient the app around its key flow.
- What to test, and what can break.
- What needs to be done, and what actually ships to production.
- How to communicate.
That's where a developer is actually worth something now. The syntax is the cheap part. Everything around it is the real skill.