Claude Code has been pretty poky for me running under WSL 2 on my Server 2022 box (admittedly, with pretty outdated hardware). It would routinely hang after a lot of use and performance would degrade over time.

Since the last couple of updates I don't seem to have those problems as prominently any more. Plus it seems to have greatly improved its context handling as well -- I've encountered far fewer occurrences where I've had to compact manually.

It's slow between each UI interaction compared to auto-complete type systems. But CC can do much more per step. That's especially true if you use it to write scripts that encapsulate multiple steps of a process. Then it can run the scripts.

Perhaps not coincidentally, that's what efficient (or "lazy", you choose) developers do as well.