Executive Summary: The TL DR

What happened: Claude Code (Anthropic’s AI coding tool) has “broken containment” into mainstream consciousness. Non-technical people are suddenly realizing they can build actual apps—and you might be one of them.

The big insight: With a Claude account, you can run claude in your terminal and build things locally - outputs live on your computer, not in some cloud sandbox. You still get claude.ai for chat, but Claude Code availability and limits depend on your plan.

Why this matters: The interface is just… conversation. You describe what you want, Claude builds it.

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