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All technical staff and half of Anthropic sales use Claude Code
“Internally, if you look at like technical employees, they all use quad code every day. And even non-technical employees, I think like half the sales team uses quad code.”
Cherny: Anthropic operates as a research lab prioritizing models over product
“So one is it operates as a research lab. So the product org was teeny, teeny, tiny. It's really all about building a safe model. That's all that matters. And so this idea of just being very close to the model and being very close to development and being not t…”
Cherny: Most Claude Code Harness Code Is Safety and Permissions
“If you look at actually the code that's in the cloud code harness today, almost all of it is about safety and permissions and static analysis, and there's a bunch of UI code, and we've actually unshipped a lot of the other code already.”
Cherny: Claude Code wrote only 10 percent of his code at launch
“Even in February when we GA'd it wrote maybe like 10% of my code or something like that. I didn't really use it to write code. It wasn't very good at it. I still wrote most of my code by hand.”
Cherny built Claude Code in the terminal to avoid building a UI
“Yes, because I didn't have to build a UI. So it was just me.”
Claude 3.5 Sonnet wrote AppleScript unprompted to detect Cherny's playing music
“And I asked it, what music am I listening to? He wrote some, like, Apple script to script my Mac and look up the music in my music player. And this was sauna 3.5.”
Anthropic employees revolted when Claude Code hid bash output
“I remember early on, this is maybe six months ago, I tried to get rid of bash output, just internally, just to, like, summarize it, because I was like, these giant long bash commands, I don't actually care. And then I gave it to anthropic employees for a day, …”