I Cannot Work the Same Way Anymore. Claude Code Has Changed Everything.

I cannot work the same way anymore.

Not because AI is cool. Because everything else feels broken now.

I spent years building businesses the "right way". Hiring specialists. Writing briefs. Waiting for quotes. Sitting in meetings where everyone nods but nothing ships.

Then I started building with Claude Code.

Now when I have an idea at 9am, I have a working tool by lunch. When a process breaks, I fix it myself instead of logging a ticket that disappears into the void. When I need something connected, I connect it.

The gap between "I want this" and "this exists" collapsed. And once that happens, you cannot unsee it.

Either you learn to drive it, or you keep paying other people to press the same buttons for you.

Claude Code is changing who wins

Claude Code is not a nicer chatbot.

It is an agent that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and ships production code. From your terminal or browser. Without you touching a line of code manually.

The real shift is not "faster coding".

The real shift: the people who understand the work can now build the tools that run it.

That is the gap Waboom AI closes for NZ and Australian businesses.

The old way is dead

Sound familiar? The old way meant watching deadlines slip while waiting for someone else to deliver.

You know the drill.

The passive-aggressive project manager who "needs more detail" before approving anything. Three rounds of scope clarification that change nothing. A Jira ticket that sits untouched for six weeks.

The IT manager who delays every decision because "security needs to review it". Except security never reviews it. It just waits in a queue behind someone else's forgotten request.

The agency that charges $180/hour and promises they know what they're doing. Then delivers something that almost works, four weeks late, built on a stack nobody understands. Good luck making changes yourself.

The "prioritisation meeting" where your idea gets deprioritised for the fifth quarter in a row. The backlog that only ever grows. The roadmap that exists purely to explain why nothing is happening right now.

That was the game. You had ideas. Someone else controlled whether they happened.

That game is over.

One person with Claude Code now:

No briefs. No tickets. No waiting for someone to care as much as you do.

If you are still treating AI like a "nice to have" productivity hack, you are already behind.

This is not about productivity. This is about execution.

Claude Code works directly in your terminal or browser, understanding your entire codebase and executing complex development tasks.

What this actually looks like

The old way: meetings, briefs, queues, delays. The new way: describe it, build it, ship it.

You have to use it to believe it

Reading about Claude Code is like reading about the gym. Nothing changes until you show up.

When you see Claude map a mess of systems, write the glue, and actually run the process end to end, something snaps. You stop asking "Is AI ready for us?" and start asking "Why did we tolerate this much manual work for so long?"

Good George Brewing, a New Zealand craft brewery, had their marketing team spend half their week copying data between systems, updating spreadsheets, and chasing down campaign reports. Three people. Twenty hours a week. Gone.

After one session with Claude Code, they automated the entire workflow. Marketing data flows automatically. Reports generate themselves. Campaigns update in real time.

The marketing manager told me: "I thought we needed developers. We just needed to know this existed."

That is the moment. Once you have built with it, you do not go back.

No Christmas break, just Claude

I did not take a Christmas break this year.

I spent it learning Claude Code properly. Not watching tutorials. Actually building.

The result: a platform that integrated four separate systems into one control panel. Killed every manual task that was chewing up my week. And finally gave me 100% visibility on whether Waboom AI was actually profitable or just busy.

That kind of clarity used to be impossible. Too many spreadsheets. Too many systems. Too many "we will get that report to you next month" excuses.

Now it is live. Always on. No excuses.

That is what "learning Claude Code" looks like. Not a toy app. A platform that changes how your business runs.

And once you have built with it, you cannot go back to the old way.

You do not need to be a developer

This is the part most people get wrong.

They think Claude Code is for developers. It is not.

Claude Code is for anyone who knows what they want to build. The AI handles the code. You handle the thinking.

The bottleneck used to be development. You had the idea. You knew exactly what you needed. But you could not build it yourself. So you wrote briefs. Waited on quotes. Sat in the dev queue. Watched your idea get watered down by people who did not understand the problem like you did.

Now the bottleneck is creativity.

If you can describe what you want clearly, you can build it. The constraint is no longer "can we code this?" The constraint is "can we imagine something worth building?"

That is a fundamentally different game.

And most organisations have not realised the rules changed.

The bottleneck is no longer code. It is imagination. Describe what you want and watch it appear.

How Claude Code actually works

Here is what makes it different from ChatGPT or any other AI tool you have tried.

Claude Code does not just generate code snippets for you to copy and paste. It actually runs inside your project. It reads your files. It understands how everything connects. Then it makes changes directly, runs tests, and commits the work.

You talk to it like a colleague:

"Build me a dashboard that pulls data from our CRM and shows which leads are going cold."

"Connect our inventory system to Slack so I get alerts when stock runs low."

"Create a client portal where customers can see their project status without emailing us."

Claude Code figures out what files to create, what APIs to call, what database queries to write. You review the changes. You approve them. Done.

Anthropic built this for their own engineering teams. Now they use it for research, content, and internal tools far beyond just coding. I use it the same way. Most of my team does too.

What this actually looks like inside a company

I will give you a real example.

A marketing manager has an idea for a campaign. She needs five landing pages for five different customer personas. Old world: she writes a brief, sends it to the agency, waits two weeks, gets one page back that misses the point, sends feedback, waits another week, gets a revision, and the other four pages have not even started. The campaign launches late. Half-baked. Momentum lost.

New world: she opens Claude Code and spins up a team of AI agents.

Agent 1: The Researcher. She tells it to go find competitor landing pages, analyse what is working in her industry, pull customer testimonials from review sites, and come back with insights. Ten minutes later, she has a research brief that would have taken her team a week.

Agent 2: The Writer. She feeds it the research and her brand voice guidelines. It drafts copy for all five personas. Each page speaks directly to that audience. The busy CEO gets different messaging than the hands-on operations manager.

Agent 3: The SEO Checker. Before anything goes live, this agent reviews every page. Checks meta titles, descriptions, heading structure, keyword density. Flags anything that will hurt rankings. Suggests improvements.

Agent 4: The Builder. Takes the approved copy, builds the actual pages, handles the responsive design, optimises images, and prepares everything for deployment.

She reviews each step. Approves what works. Asks for changes where needed. The agents iterate until it is right.

By end of day, she has five polished landing pages ready to go. She uploads them herself. No developer queue. No agency invoice. No waiting.

Same person. Same campaign. Five pages instead of one. Shipped in a day instead of a month.

The question I keep getting asked

"How do I actually get started with this?"

There are three paths I see working.

Path 1: Pick one person and let them run.

Find the most curious, frustrated, or ambitious person on your team. Give them Claude Code access and a real problem to solve. Not a test project. A real one that matters.

If they are the right person, they will figure it out. They will come back with something that works. Then you have proof. Then you scale.

Path 2: Train a team in one session.

I run 3 hour workshops where teams show up with real problems from their actual jobs and leave with working tools. No theory. No slides about "the future of AI". Just building.

By the end, everyone in the room has shipped something. They know how it works. They can do it again.

Path 3: Start with leadership.

If you are a CEO or senior leader, you might need to understand this before you can deploy it properly. That is what the AI Lead Champion Program is for. Four weeks. Peer cohort. Real project shipped. You lead this thing instead of delegating it to someone who does not have the authority to make it work.

What you can actually build (without being technical)

Let me give you real examples from the last few months.

Marketing teams:

Operations teams:

Sales teams:

None of these required a developer. None of these sat in a backlog. The people with the ideas built the tools themselves.

One prompt. Multiple files. Real output. This is what building looks like now.

Why Waboom AI for Claude

Plenty of companies "teach AI".

Very few are built around actually shipping with it.

Waboom AI combines hands on Claude expertise with on the ground delivery in NZ and Australia.

1,000+ people trained. 30+ projects live. Measurable wins from automation and AI agents.

The focus is always the same:

If your next move is to get your team building with Claude Code, your operators shipping their own tools, or your leadership actually leading this shift:

How to install Claude Code

Stop reading. Start building. Here is exactly how to get Claude Code running on your computer, even if you have never opened a terminal before.

Before you start

You need one thing: a Claude Pro, Max, or Team subscription ($20 USD/month for Pro). That is it. No coding experience required.

Prefer no installation? Use the browser version

If you do not want to install anything, you can use Claude Code directly in your browser:

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Claude Code and how is it different from ChatGPT?

Claude Code is an agentic coding assistant that can read, edit, run, and ship code directly in your terminal or browser. Unlike ChatGPT, which generates code snippets you copy and paste, Claude Code understands your entire codebase, runs commands, edits multiple files simultaneously, creates commits, and executes complex development workflows autonomously. It is built specifically for building software, not just chatting about it.

Do I need to know how to code to use Claude Code?

No. Claude Code is designed for natural language instructions. You tell it what you want to build in plain English, and it writes the code, sets up the environment, and ships the tool. Waboom AI training is specifically designed for non technical professionals who want to become AI Operators without learning traditional programming. See our training options.

Can Claude Code work with my existing tech stack?

Yes. Claude Code works with any programming language, framework, or platform. It understands Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, React, Vue, Next.js, Django, Rails, and virtually every major stack. It also integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and your existing development workflow. If you can code it manually, Claude Code can build it faster.

How much does Claude Code cost?

Claude Code is included with Claude Pro ($20 USD per month) and Claude Team plans. Enterprise plans with higher usage limits are available. Compared to hiring developers at $80–150 per hour or agencies at $30,000–50,000 per project, Claude Code pays for itself in the first week.

Is Claude Code safe for production work?

Yes, when used properly. Claude Code follows your project standards (defined in CLAUDE.md), runs tests automatically, and creates version controlled commits so you can review changes before deployment. Waboom AI training teaches teams how to use Claude Code safely in production environments with proper governance and quality controls. Learn about AI governance for leaders.

I cannot go back

I started this article with a confession: I cannot work the same way anymore.

Now you understand why.

Once you have shipped your first tool with Claude Code, something breaks inside you. The old tolerance for waiting, for queues, for "it is on the roadmap" excuses. Gone.

You will look at problems differently. Instead of asking "who can build this for me?" you will ask "what do I want this to do?" And then you will build it. Before lunch.

That shift is not coming. It is here. The people who see it are already moving. The people who do not will spend the next five years wondering why everything feels slower than it used to.

I spent my Christmas break learning this properly. Not because I had to. Because I could not stop.

Now it is your turn.