That’s funny, my experience has been the exact opposite.

Claude Code has single-handedly 2-3x my coding productivity. I haven’t even used Claude 4 yet so I’m pretty excited to try it out.

But even trusty ol 3.7 is easily helping me out out 2-3x the amount of code I was before. And before anyone asks, yes it’s all peer-reviewed and I read every single line.

It’s been an absolute game changer.

Also to your point about most engineering being thinking: I can test 4-5 ideas in the time it took me to test a single idea in the last. And once you find the right idea, it 100% codes faster than you do.

Yeah remember when people were using Claude 3.7... so oldschool man