claude code is not making your product better

Ethan Ding: “if using claude code gives you a genuine product velocity advantage, and anthropic had it exclusively for 7 months, the gap between claude code and every competitor should be unbridgeable. codex would be irrelevant. instead, people are still actively debating which one is better. the compound advantage isn’t showing up. something else is bottlenecking product quality, and it was never the code”