Initial Thoughts: Claude Code 2025 - Big Machine

***TL;DR**: Claude Code is worth every part of the $20 I'm paying for it (I'm not receiving any consideration for this review). ... * *The only thing it's not very good at, and this is a very big thing, is undoing its updates and you have to rely on Git a bit too much.* … ## The Problem with Copilot's Flow One thing that drives me nuts about the Copilot extension in VS Code is **the noise**: There are a lot of words in this panel that don't make sense to someone unfamiliar with AI tooling, especially the placeholder: *Edit files in your workspace in agent mode*. Do what with what now? Then there are the buttons, drop-downs, and icons that really don't belong there (a microphone and paper airplane?). … - **Switching between modes is clunky** and unnatural. For instance: I might want to know what the best ORM is for Python, see an example using a local SQL file as reference, and then have Copilot make a class for me. Up until recently that required a few mode switches in Copilot, and it still does and it's hard to say when or why, but the extension does this for you now. … ## How To Undo Things In Claude Code There are two ways I learned to undo things with Claude Code: - **Get good at Git**. Make sure you're working in a branch and you're comfortable rolling back to `HEAD` or the last commit. - **Ask Claude to undo** itself. I've used both ways and honestly haven't had a problem. The Git solution feels the most natural by simply using `git checkout --`, which rolls back to the last commit.