To me, this kind of talk exhibits the very cultish and con side of the whole genAI train ... Generally, and more so with paid products, one should expect to get something that is ready to be used
Right like I bought an AWS EC2 m6a.metal instance expecting to get something that is ready to be used. Now being told to recite arcane "commands" from the cloud computing holy book. They claim their supposedly groundbreaking hypertext protocol isn't even accessible to mere mortals using a $6000/month EC2, the blame is definitely on you, the user, for not setting up the tool in the right way.
This sysadmin cloud cult is basically saying that the EC2 product is actually not much more than an empty box, and that it is your responsibility to augment it with third-party servers and interpreters and application source texts that make it finally useful. And you better be carefully selecting the tools you install.
an EC2 instance gives exactly what you're told you'll be getting. You pay for a VM in some public cloud, you get it.
It's not that Claude code isn't a finite product per-se, I certainly can find some value in it. What I'm saying is that people selling it, through the convenient talks of prominent voices on the Internet and gullible C-suites, are trying to make it look like it's the only software engineer the world will need from now on. What makes me mad is not the deceptive advertising, that's already everywhere, it's the fact that the industry is happily believing all of this. If you raise any doubt, it must be that you haven't tried with the right skill.