If you are a programmer and an AI hold-out, and you have some time off during Christmas: gift yourself a 100 USD subscription to Claude Code and … try it. But really try it. Take a week if you can afford it and dive in. It will change your opinion on these tools.
And I'm saying this also because I saw multiple people now who I knew learned throughout the year what AI agents are and it didn't click, until they took the time over Christmas to really dive in.
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