I’m an experienced backend dev who’s been working on some Vue frontend projects, and it’s significantly accelerated my ability to learn the complexities of e.g. Vue’s reactivity model. I can ask a complex question that involves several niche concepts and get a response that correctly synthesizes those concepts. I spent an hour the other night trying to understand a bug in a component to no avail; once I understood the problem well enough to explain it in a few sentences, Claude diagnosed the issue and explained it with more clarity than the documentation and various stack overflow answers.

My default is no longer to assume that the model has a coin flip’s chance of producing bs. I still verify and treat answers with a certain degree of skepticism, but I now reach for it as my first tool rather than a last resort or a gimmick.