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Ok. Claude Code produces most code at Anthropic. Theres an enterprise code base, with acute real needs. There are real, experienced SWEs. How much babysitting and reviewing is undetermined; but the Ants seem to tremendously prefer the workflow.

Even crypto people didn’t dogfood their crypto like that, on their own critical path.



> Ok. Claude Code produces most code at Anthropic.m

Does it? Or does their marketing tell you that? Strange that "most code is written by Claude" and they still hire for actual humans for all the positions from backend to API to desktop to mobile clients.

> How much babysitting and reviewing is undetermined; but the Ants seem to tremendously prefer the workflow.

So. We know nothing about their codebase, actual flows, programming languages, depth and breadth of usage, how much babysitting is required...


In my codebase in my proprietary project, it’s possible that LLMs write around half the code, but that’s just because a lot of the trivial parts of the project are quite verbose.

The really difficult and valuable parts of the codebase are very very far beyond what the current LLMs are capable of, and believe me, I’ve tried!

Writing the majority of the code is very different from creating the majority of the value.

And I really use and value LLMs, but they are not replacing me at the moment.


Regardless of the usefulness of llms, if you don't work at anthropic, how gullible are you to believe that claim at face value?


Truly, how could they have the valuation they have and do anything else?


> but the Ants

Is that the official cutsie name people working there are called? Those feels so 2020 ...




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