‘Claude Code is the New Excel’

John Hwang:

But it will be harder to differentiate from Claude Code than it ever was to differentiate from Excel, because Claude Code is more general-purpose, more composable, more scalable, and improving every day, not at some release cycle cadence. UX is less meaningful when agent delivers outcomes. Thus, recent UX innovations are happening mostly for alleviating the pain of managing agent swarms, etc.

Great take, read it all