"We built the simplest possible thing,"
"The craziest thing was learning three months ago that half of the sales team at Anthropic uses Claude Code every week."
"The only model I can point to where I saw a step-function improvement in coding abilities recently has been Claude Opus 4.5,"
"It doesn't even feel like it's coding like a human, you sort of feel like it has figured out a better way."
AI-powered coding progressed from simple autocomplete (2021–2024) to agentic coding by early 2025, enabling feature implementation from plain-language prompts. Anthropic released Claude Code amid this shift and accepted early instability while targeting future capabilities. Early versions sometimes erred or looped, but the product trajectory aligned with model improvements. The launch of Claude Opus 4.5 produced a notable inflection in coding performance, prompting companies and senior engineers to adopt Claude Code. Internal usage at Anthropic increased substantially, and several organizations switched tools after observing step-function improvements and a different, effective coding approach from the model.
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