Claude Code finally showed me why learning to code felt impossible, and it wasn't what I expected

I'll start this article with a bet I'm somewhat confident I'll win. Whether you've written a line of code yourself before or not, I'm willing to bet you've tinkered around with one of the AI-coding tools that have exploded onto the scene in the last year or two. Some examples include Cursor, Replit, Lovable, Bolt, OpenAI's Codex, and so on.