The One Person Claude Code Can't Impress
The Kid Who Loved Wires
Growing up as a kid I was so much into Tech Stuff. I used to spend not hours but days discovering cool applications and playing around with them. Even the cables, wires and small circuits gave me immense satisfaction when I could see the potential of automating things.
I was pretty good at Microsoft Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and even Access when I was still around 10 years old. At that time my father, who is an engineer, was not so good with computers. I was so happy for myself for being so good at computer stuff, seeing even professionals in the industry lack those skills. I remember times when my father had to call the company's tech support team when he had problems with his computer - he never trusted me. But sometimes they ended up not being supportive at all, and me fixing them easily. I had to be proud of myself, low key.
The Advice I Couldn't Fully Accept
I always bragged about how good I was at using these tech tools to get things done. Growing up in a smart family, it's never easy to impress anybody, naturally. Every time I bragged about my skills in using such tools, for example Excel, my father used to tell me that:
just knowing how to use a tool is not going to take you anywhere - but knowing and understanding the real problems and the process to solving them will.
It's tricky - you can't totally agree.
Lost With a Bow and Arrow
Time passed and I eventually started a PhD. I got the opportunity to read a lot, talk a lot and question the world. As the famous quotes say, when you're permanently stuck somewhere, you need to switch to a different world-view and approach it again.
If you are to hunt, you need to have the outcome in mind: hunting. You need to know what you're going to hunt, where you're going to hunt, and more. Having a bow and an arrow and knowing how to shoot doesn't make you a hunter. I was in many situations with a bow and arrows, waiting for something to come my way to shoot.
The Age of AI Agents
It's March 2026 and I've been using many agents to automate things for a while. LangFlow, Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Google Stitch, Figma AI, you name it. It's like, I have an idea, I explain it to Claude and it just does it. I don't know how, but it works. I see tweets, Instagram reels, and Facebook memes on real people being replaced by these AI agents - a lot of them.
Tech is addictive - it's not that someone is forcing you, it's you willingly sacrificing yourself for the instant satisfaction of doing cool stuff. The generation before me made decent money just by knowing how to use the tools. They had very little idea about the real problems - but honestly, they didn't need to. The market hadn't figured out how to replace them yet. That window is now closing fast.
Today, they don't need you anymore to use these tools - billions of dollars are being invested in AI. The only thing left that truly matters is knowing what problems actually need solving - and knowing the right people who can help you get there. No agent is going to figure that out for you.
He's Still Not Impressed
10–15 years fast-forward, I still brag about cool stuff I do with AI when I call my father every evening. I don't see him being impressed. We all somehow know that we can only impress people for so long until they start figuring out how to use these tools themselves. My father still doesn't know much about tech - but he knows problems and how to solve them. He's not insecure like many of us.
No Experiment is a Waste of Time
Concluding this, I'd say my family had no requirement at all to automate lights at home. I was finding solutions to problems that never existed. But today I'm finding solutions to other people's problems with what I've learned. So, no experiment is a waste of time.