I am not sure it's meant to be a negative thing. Obviously, a lot depends on the context here.

But, I've developed a dozen or so projects with Claude code. I am meant to be the only user.

I am maintaining a homelab setup (homelab production environment, really) with a few dozen services, combination of open source and my own - closed sourced - ones.

I had tons of ideas of how to set things up. It evolved naturally, so changing things was hard. Progress was quite slow.

Now, I have a pretty much ideal end-state - runs on auto-pilot, version bumps mostly managed by Renovate, ingress is properly isolated and secured (to the extent I am familiar of).

I was able to achieve things I wouldnt've otherwise in that time. I skipped parts I did not care about and let LLMs drive the changes under supervision. I spent more time on things I did care about, and was interested in learning.

Yeah, most of my LLM code is sitting closed source and that's by design.

I have developed five applications for my Mac using claude that I made for myself. I'm perfectly happy with the setup. The projects help me solve daily problems. I could never have had the time or the skill to do them myself.