# Two Senior Claude Code Engineers Leave Anthropic in the Days Before Its IPO Filing

Thariq Shihipar and Anthony Morris, who built the desktop app, left a product at the center of Anthropic's lead in coding, where Opus 5.5 now scores 89.9% on SWE-bench Pro.

- Published: 2026-10-28T06:21:21.801Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-28/two-senior-claude-code-engineers-leave-anthropic-in-the-days
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [Anthropic News](https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5)

Thariq Shihipar, one of the most public engineers on Anthropic's Claude Code team, announced on October 24 that he had left the company, the Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data reported. Shihipar was previously a researcher at the MIT M…

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