Claude Code

What is Claude Code?

Claude Code is Anthropic's AI coding assistant. It's not an editor plugin — it lives in your terminal. Think of it as an engineer who actually works inside your project: it reads code, edits files, runs commands, and breaks a big task into small steps it can finish one by one.

How is it different from a normal chatbot?

It actually gets things done
A regular assistant can only offer advice. Claude Code reads files, edits them, runs tests, and shows you the result.
It lives in your project
It knows your directory structure, dependencies and git state, so its answers are about your specific code, not generic tips.

How does it work?

Understand the task
You say "fix this bug" or "add this feature" in plain language, and it first gets its bearings.
Plan and execute
It breaks the work into steps, reads and writes files, runs commands, and adjusts when something errors out.
Report back
It tells you what it did and why at every step, and you can stop or correct it anytime.

What's it good for?

From small bug fixes and writing tests to refactoring a module or scaffolding a new project, Claude Code takes it on. It shines at work that's clear to describe but tedious to do — you do the thinking, it does the doing.

Bottom line: Claude Code is an AI engineer living in your terminal. You name the task; it rolls up its sleeves and shows its work.