AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

Developers consistently prefer Claude Code over alternatives like Gemini and Codex due to recurring performance issues with new models. Despite new models achieving high benchmarks, developers return to Claude after experiencing dissatisfaction with the competition.