I agree - the ability to lower activation energy in a field you're interested in, but not yet an expert, feels like having superpowers.

Thanks for phrasing it like this!

same for me but Claude. I've had an iphone game i've wanted to do for years but just couldn't spend the time consistently to learn everything to do it. but with Claude over the past three months i've been able to implement the game and even release it for fun.

May we look at it please? pure curiosity - also have similar thoughts you had. : )

same, I had a great idea (and a decently detailed plan) to improve an open source project, but never had the time and willpower to dive into the code, with codex it was one night to set it up and then slowing implementing every step of what I had originally planned.