Comment by CamperBob2

Is lint a tool? If so, what's wrong with treating Claude as an ungodly-effective lint? You don't have to one-shot everything, or anything at all. You can ask for as much help or as little help as you need.

Another way to look at it: when I'm using Claude to write application code, I'm engaging with the machine and the work product in a different way. I'm not "programming" anymore, so OK, maybe it's reasonable to say Claude isn't a programming tool. Instead, I'm doing something new, something that perhaps we don't have a verb for yet. Whatever that verb is, Claude is a tool for it.