Comment by JoostBoer
13 days ago
I have no engineering background. I build websites and tools for a living. Claude Code changed what's possible for me in a way that's hard to overstate.
I can't evaluate the source code architecture. What I can say is that before this, I had ideas I couldn't execute without hiring a developer. Now I ship them myself. Not prototypes, not demos. Real products that people use and pay for.
The leaked internals are interesting to engineers. From where I sit, the interesting part is that it works well enough that someone without a CS degree can build production software with it. That's the actual story.
I don't think CS degree was needed pre-LLM era, you just needed to know what you're doing. Maybe learning and doing got faster, but you still need to learn and know. There are CS grads that don't know still. I hope you know what is required for "production software". Claude code doesn't.
Have you also shipped a bot to post comments for you?