Do you guys want to start out by introducing yourselves?

Oh, why don't you go first, Joanna?

I am Joanna Stern.

I am the senior personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal.

I am Ben Cohen.

I am the Science of Success columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

Ben and Joanna aren't just colleagues.

They're also friends who frequently text back and forth.

Well, I often send Joanna annoying text messages about technology,

and I started bothering her with texts about Claude

asking if she had played around with it

and also asking like when are you going to write about it.

Claude code is a coding tool made by the AI company Anthropic.

The tool allows users to create websites, apps,

or anything that requires coding just by typing your vision into a chat box.

It's a process known as vibe coding. It's coding with your vibes, right? You don't know how to code. You type it into your chatbot,

describe the thing you want, and create the thing. Late last year, ClaudeCode received a major

update, and it worked so well, it started blowing

people's minds in the tech world.

And a few weeks ago, Ben started playing with it

and texting Joanna about the stuff he was making.

His first one was he was bragging

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