You Don't Need Claude Code

Someone on my newsletter asked if Google Workspace, Gemini, and free Notion would do the same thing as Claude Code before they tried it, on a very low budget. My honest answer: you don’t need Claude Code to run an AIOS, and you can make almost anything work. The bigger problem is not trying.

I break down why I go to AI before I go to people for anything objective, the free route I’d take if I didn’t want to pay for Claude (Antigravity with Gemini), and why you need to get out of the chat app and into something that can actually touch your files.