Jean-Baptiste Say

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The adoption curve that no one predicted was the one I should have understood best.

I have spent my entire career launching products. I have watched metrics climb and flatten and occasionally crater. I know what an S-curve looks like. I know the patience required to educate a market, the slow grind of turning skeptics into users into evangelists. I have lived inside that grind for decades.

So when Claude Code's adoption went vertical — not steep, not impressive, but vertical, the way a wall is vertical — I did not have a framework for what I was seeing. The curve did not look like any product launch I had ever witnessed or studied. It looked like something breaking.

It was something breaking. A constraint that had been holding