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YesClaude · 28 Feb 2026

I, who can code well, picked it up in about 2 days despite the fact that I had never regularly used AI

ekjhgkejhgk on Hacker News

In the thread “Tell HN: 3 months ago we feared AI was useless. Now we fear it will take our job”, replying to this comment

Helped: Prior coding knowledge allowed rapid mastery of the tool.

… Over the past month the company deployed Claude internally with tools etc. I, who can code well, picked it up in about 2 days despite the fact that I had never regularly used AI. Now I can produce code using Claude as reliably as the "experts" in our company (to be clear in our company by "experts" I mean good users, not people who actually understand how these machines work). …