Comment by mmaunder

You have to try and experience claude code to answer this question. Otherwise it's just going to be a pointless debate here. If you live in a linux terminal you're going to be instantly addicted. Make sure you read the docs. Use a CLAUDE.md, create planning docs for big tasks in markup format, iterate on the planning doc until you're happy then get it to implement. And also use the technique of, as you approach the context limit have it write its memory to a file, /clear and then read that file back in. This gives you better mileage.