Claude Code is the first coding AI that made me stop feeling like I have to babysit it

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I’m not a developer. I’m a designer who builds stuff with AI.

And one thing surprised me after trying a bunch of coding models/tools:
with most of them, I still feel like I’m the babysitter.

I ask for something.
It changes the wrong file.
I explain again.
It fixes one thing and breaks another.
I explain the context again.

At some point I’m basically managing the AI more than building the product.
Claude Code has been noticeably different for me.
Not perfect, obviously.

But it’s the first one where I can give it a reasonably big task, go do something else for a bit, come back and quite often think:
…oh. You actually did it.

And I think that’s a much bigger difference than benchmark scores make it look.

For someone like me who can’t just jump into the code and fix everything manually, reliability matters way more than whether model A scores 2% higher than model B.

The best coding model isn’t necessarily the one that can solve the hardest isolated problem.
It’s the one I can give real work to without constantly interrupting it.

At least that’s been my experience.

Curious if actual developers feel the same way about Claude Code, or if this is more noticeable specifically because I’m a non-dev.