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Why Claude Code feels like magic?


It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

If your attempts are purely random, you need roughly the size of the search space to find a solution. The model didn't get smarter but because Claude Code can make several attempts on its own, its overall intelligence increases for the end user. I completely disregarded it at first because I thought a Chat window where I manually go back and forth is enough.

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