Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny

Anthropic has accelerated its engineering velocity to a 150% growth rate by leveraging *Claude Code* to generate 70% to 90% of its own source code and rewriting its entire codebase every six months to avoid technical debt. The organization operates a bimodal workforce of specialists and generalists while predicting that traditional software engineering roles will fade as AI automates coding tasks. With *Claude Code* now powering the majority of developer sessions and influencing 4% of public industry commits, the company is simultaneously expanding into non-technical domains through *Co-work* and monitoring its safety rating at ASL 3.