I think this misses the target.

First, the twitter quote is standard toxic clapback nonsense. Gambling makes billions and does not add any value. Even facebook can argue it adds more value than gambling so this one is a dud.

People use claud code because of claud the model and not claud the harness. Cursor or a hacked up agent loop using opus or whatever are about as good. The magic is in the model not the harness here. This isnt to say the hardness is doesnt do anything.

The other bit this misses is that yes the product matters more then the code, and if the product burns battery/ram/etc doing nothing because the ai has crappy code or maybe something leaks or has a security issue, then that impacts the product.