Dylan PatelFounder and Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis · The semiconductor-AI stack

Claude Code Made His Jaw Drop

24 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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A programmer's friends wouldn't touch PlugCode until he showed them Claude handling a data manipulation task. His jaw dropped at what it could do. Even then, it took his boss pushing him to actually switch over.

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And even like, even some of my smartest friends are still like not wanting to use it. Like there is a hurdle of understanding, even basically understanding what it is and what it can do, and then essentially installing it on your PC. Like for whatever reason, that hurdle is like really high for even some of my like very computer savvy computer programming type friends. And so I, I mean, from my point of view, like, it's awesome because that just gives me more time to use the tool before everyone else.
Yeah, right.
Even I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm trying to sell you fire insurance to a burning house.
What did, what did it take to get you over the hurdle? And when did you get over that hurdle to start using PlugCode for the first time?
Right. Like, totally. Yeah, totally applicable because I think Doug had mentioned in December, like, hey, this is amazing. Like, you should use it. And I was like, okay, I'm gonna try and use it. I used just Claude, right? I think this is everyone's experience. I typed in a couple questions and asking it to manipulate data and give me some outputs. My jaw dropped. So I think, yeah, going back to your question, like the reason I jumped over the hump is because my boss is pushing me to do it, right? So I think not everyone has that situation.