claude code might be the most IMPORTANT piece of software in years and is the BLUEPRINT for the next $100+ in software opportunities. it took the single most terrifying piece of software ever created (the terminal!!) and made it 10x more friendly. if you're a non tech person, you're brutally afraid of the terminal, kinda the final boss of computing. it's a menacing black screen where one wrong character could nuke your entire project. where EVEN experienced developers would triple-check every keystroke. it's like trying to perform surgery with a chainsaw. technically possible, but most people would rather not. claude code changed everything. now you just talk to your computer like a human: "deploy my app to vercel with SSL" and it handles the surgery for you. writes the commands, catches mistakes, fixes errors automatically. suddenly the most intimidating interface on earth became as easy as sending a text. every industry has its own "terminal." intimidating tools that require months of training: 1/photoshop: 47 toolbars, 200 keyboard shortcuts, layers that make no sense blender: looks like a spaceship control panel, crashes if you breathe wrong 2/excel: pivot tables that feel like advanced calculus autocad: where one wrong click deletes 6 hours of work imagine telling photoshop "remove this background and make it look professional." or telling blender "create a spinning logo animation." or telling autocad "design a simple house floor plan." the opportunity is massive because these tools already have huge markets. millions of people pay thousands for training or hire specialists because the software is "too scary." I *think* within 3 years, every major software company will have a "claude mode" - a natural language layer on top of their existing tools. we'll see a complete inversion of software economics. instead of charging more for "advanced features," companies will charge more for "advanced simplicity." the easier it is to use, the more valuable it becomes. this also creates a new category of power users: people who become incredibly productive not because they mastered complex interfaces, but because they mastered talking to software. prompt engineering (or context engineering?) becomes the new keyboard shortcuts. claude code proved you can take the most unapproachable interface ever built and make it feel natural. I think thats why so many of us are obsessed with it.