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Morning Edition · Sunday, July 26, 2026Published at 1:32 AM EDT · New York
Claude Code's Creator Says He Has Not Hand-Written Code Since November
Boris Cherny reports submitting 10 to 30 pull requests a day with all code authored by the agent, a data point in the labs' escalating competition on coding.
Boris Cherny, the creator of Anthropic's Claude Code, said he has not written a line of code by hand since November, with all of his output now authored through the agent, following the launch of Claude Opus 4.5 that month. He reports remai…
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Frontier Labs Race on AI Coding Capability
Coding is becoming a primary competitive battleground among frontier labs, with incumbents standing up permanent coding teams and investing in new training stages (e.g. midtraining) to match leaders like Anthropic; expect recurring reorganizations, benchmarks, and model releases aimed specifically at code.
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