Why Your Engineers Aren't Using Claude Code (And the Fix That Takes One Afternoon)

You bought the Claude Code seats. The announcement went out. A few engineers tried it the first week. Now it's been a month. Most of them have gone back to their old workflow. This is the pattern we see most often - and it has almost nothing to do with Claude Code itself. What's Actually Happening Engineers are pragmatists. If a tool doesn't immediately save them time, they stop using it. And Claude Code - used wrong - doesn't immediately save time. The most common complaints we hear: "It's slower than just writing it myself." For small, well-understood tasks, this is sometimes true.