Everyone clowns people for "just using Claude to code." I think it's backwards.

The meme is always: new devs skip the fundamentals, reach straight for Claude, so they're cooked. But every layer of coding has just been a translator. You wrote C, a compiler translated it down. You wrote HTML, the browser turned it into something the machine renders. Each new layer let you stop sweating a lower level and think one level up. Claude is just the newest translator. You describe what you want, it produces the code. That doesn't delete the developer, it changes the job: you stop memorizing synt