> I certainly wouldn't call Claude Code "trivial" - it's by far the most sophisticated TUI app I've ever interacted with.

I'll be honest, I think we just come to this from very different perspectives in that case. Agents are trivial, and I haven't seen anything in Claude Code that indicated to me that it was solving any hard problems, and certainly not solving problems in a particularly good way.

I create custom 3D engines from scratch for work and I honestly think those are pretty simple and straight forward; it's certainly not complicated and it's a lot simpler than people make it out to be... But if Claude Code is "not trivial", and even "sophisticated" I don't even know what to classify 3D engines as.

This is not some "Everything that's not what I do is probably super simple" rant, by the way. I've worked with distributed systems, web backend & frontend and more, and there are many non-trivial things in those sub-industries. I'm also aware of this bias towards thinking what other people do is trivial. The Claude Code TUI (and what it does as an agent) is not such a thing.

> So no, I can't do better that an LLM when I'm writing code by hand.

Again, I just think we come at this from very different positions in software development.