How Claude Code made me an AI Believer
In 2025, I was an AI skeptic. Burnt out and mentally bogged down by AI slop, I observed what most companies in the MIT Media Lab's July 2025 GenAI report also found: few real productivity gains. When I started recovering and coding again, I gave the Zed IDE and Claude Code a try — and something shifted. The differentiating developer experience wasn't the underlying model, but the combined IDE and agent tooling. As I fell back in love with coding, I became a believer — not just for myself, but for the industry.

