Claude Code: Anthropic created a tool that's changing the company itself
Programming has always been about fingertips and keyboards, about long hours staring at a monitor and hunting for that one missed comma. But Claude Code from Anthropic transforms this process into something between management and conducting an orchestra. While the world slowly rewrote itself with ChatGPT, Boris Cherny's team created a tool that lives right in the terminal and does what used to take hours of focused work. This isn't just "smart autocomplete," it's an agent that understands the context of an entire codebase and is ready to act independently. Why is this important right now? We've definitively moved past the stage of simple "autocomplete," when an IDE would suggest the next word or close a bracket. Now we're entering the era of agents. Claude Code doesn't just advise—it executes. It searches for bugs, fixes them, runs tests, and verifies the result.
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Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code searches for bugs in code on its own, fixes them, runs tests, and checks the result — the company uses it in its own development process. According to Boris Cherny, head of the Claude Code product line, this has changed the internal work culture at Anthropic and makes it possible to complete in minutes tasks that used to take a full workday.
What Claude Code does
The tool lives right in the terminal and understands the context of the entire codebase. It's not "smart search" — it's an agent that acts on its own: it finds bugs, fixes them, runs tests, and checks the result. The tool was created by a team led by Boris Cherny.
How Claude Code changed work at Anthropic
Boris Cherny, head of the Claude Code product line, told Wired in an interview how the tool is changing work inside Anthropic. According to him, Claude Code has changed the company's internal culture: Anthropic engineers spend less time on routine tasks. The company notes that with Claude Code you can do in minutes what used to take a full workday.
From autocomplete to agents
Previously, an IDE only suggested the next word or closed a bracket — that was simple autocomplete. Claude Code works differently: it doesn't just make suggestions, it carries out tasks on its own.
Who created Claude Code?
Claude Code was created by an Anthropic team led by Boris Cherny, who heads the Claude Code product line at the company.
What can Claude Code do?
Claude Code works in the terminal, understands the context of the entire codebase, and acts on its own: it finds bugs, fixes them, runs tests, and checks the result.
How did
Claude Code change the work of Anthropic's engineers?
According to Boris Cherny, Claude Code has changed Anthropic's internal culture — engineers spend less time on routine work, and tasks that used to take a full workday are now completed in minutes.
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