They call it βClaude Codeβ but people are turning it into a general purpose LLM scripting platform.
The main advantage it has over the desktop apps is it can βauto compactβ when the messages get long and keep going and going.
AI is following a similar trajectory as smartphones
First, smartphones were enthusiastically adopted by power users who got a huge stepwise advantage (blackberry execs)
Then huge skepticism by general public
Followed by utter domination
Finally collective amnesia that the world was any other way
The cost difference between using Claude Code and cursor /API is insane.
For the $100/mo plan I've already gotten $500+ dollars worth of tokens in 3 days.
Iβm basically on track to spend ~3k worth of API credits per month.