This is my take: I’ve been professionally developing software for 25-years. I use Claude Code daily and find it really useful. It does take a lot of effort— particularly in code review, which is my least favorite part of the job— in order to get useful, high quality results. For small, focused or boilerplate-heavy stuff, it is excellent, though. Also, the most fun part of programming (to me) is solving the problem; not so much actual implementation, so agents haven’t removed the fun yet.