Even as AI has advanced, the most sophisticated bots have yet to go fully mainstream. Unlike ChatGPT, which has a free tier, agentic tools such as Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex typically cost money, and can be intimidating to set up. I run Claude Code out of my computer’s terminal, an app traditionally reserved for programmers, and which looks like something a hacker uses in movies. It’s also not always obvious how best to prompt agentic bots: A sophisticated user might set up teams of agents that message one another as they work, whereas a newbie might not realize such capabilities even exist.