Kind of surprised by this take - I use openpilot often and also use claude code.

I kind of consider them the same thing. Openpilot can drive really well on highways for hours on end when nothing interesting is happening. Claude code can do straight forward refactors, write boilerplate, do scaffolding, do automated git bisects with no input from me.

Neither one is a substitute for the 'driver'. Claude code is like the level 2 self driving of programming.