Mann: Anthropic built Claude Code because partner feedback was too slow
Ben Mann · No Priors Ep. 118 | With Anthropic Co-Founder Ben Mann · Jun 12, 2025 · at 11:55
Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann explains Anthropic's decision to forward-integrate into developer tools despite partnering with Cursor and GitHub.
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“So we love our partners like cursor and GitHub who have been using our models quite heavily, but the amount and the speed that we learn is much less if we don't have a direct relationship with our coding users. So launching cloud code was really essential for us to get a better sense of what do people need? How do we make the models better? And how do we Advance the state of the art and user experience.”
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