{"id":298327,"date":"2026-01-22T21:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/298327\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T21:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:15:08","slug":"how-claude-code-is-reshaping-software-and-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/298327\/","title":{"rendered":"How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software\u2014and Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic\u2019s AI coding tool, Claude Code<\/a>, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it\u2019s reached a fever pitch.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, I sat down with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, to try to understand how the company is meeting this moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe built the simplest possible thing,\u201d said Cherny. \u201cThe craziest thing was learning three months ago that half of the sales team at Anthropic uses Claude Code every week.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI-powered coding has evolved quickly. From 2021 to 2024, most tools functioned as little more than autocomplete, suggesting a few lines of code as developers typed. By early 2025, startups like Cursor and Windsurf began rolling out early \u201cagentic\u201d coding products, which let developers describe a feature in plain language and leave the rest up to an AI agent.<\/p>\n

Claude Code launched around this time too. Cherny acknowledges that early versions of Claude Code often stumbled, making errors or getting stuck in costly loops. Cherny says Anthropic built Claude Code for where AI capabilities were headed, rather than where they were at launch.<\/p>\n

That bet was prescient. Several developers claim AI coding products reached an inflection point<\/a> in recent months, particularly around the launch of Anthropic\u2019s latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kian Katanforoosh, an adjunct lecturer on AI at Stanford and the CEO of the startup Workera, says his company recently switched over to Claude Code after testing several AI coding tools internally. Ultimately, he says, Claude Code worked better for his senior engineers than tools from Cursor and Windsurf.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only model I can point to where I saw a step-function improvement in coding abilities recently has been Claude Opus 4.5,\u201d says Katanforoosh. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t even feel like it\u2019s coding like a human, you sort of feel like it has figured out a better way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, the business of AI coding agents took off. In November, Anthropic announced that Claude Code had reached $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue, less than a year after its debut.<\/p>\n

By the end of 2025, Claude Code\u2019s ARR had grown by at least another $100 million, according to a person familiar with the company\u2019s financials. At the time the product accounted for roughly 12 percent of Anthropic\u2019s total ARR, which stood around $9 billion. While still smaller than Anthropic\u2019s enterprise business\u2014which supplies AI systems to entire corporations\u2014coding is one of the company\u2019s fastest-growing segments.<\/p>\n

Anthropic has also told investors it aims to be cash-flow positive by 2028 and that Claude Code could play an important role in its revenue growth. The company declined to comment on its finances.<\/p>\n

While Anthropic feels dominant in AI coding, the buzz around Claude Opus 4.5 appears to be lifting several companies. Cursor, which lets users code using models from Anthropic and other AI labs, also said its coding tool reached $1 billion in ARR in November. In December, the company posted particularly strong month-over-month revenue growth, according to a person close to the company. OpenAI, Google, and xAI are also racing to claim a larger share of the AI coding market, developing agentic products of their own powered by in-house AI models.<\/p>\n

Now, Anthropic is trying to use Claude Code\u2019s momentum to create agents for non-coding sectors<\/a>. Earlier this month, the company launched Cowork, an AI agent that can manage files on a user\u2019s computer and interact with software\u2014without requiring any interaction with a coding terminal.<\/p>\n

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/p>\n

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