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Anthropic engineering lead says all team code is written by Claude

Reality check

Katelyn Lesse says about 200 engineers have all code written by Claude, with humans designing and verifying. Claude Code wrote over 80 percent of production code in May.

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What the research found

Anthropic's platform engineering lead Katelyn Lesse says her roughly 200-person team has all code written by Claude, with humans designing and verifying; Claude Code wrote over 80 percent of production code in May.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Anthropic platform engineering team of about 200 people says all of its code is written by Claude 98%
  2. Anthropic says Claude Code wrote more than 80 percent of production code in May 98%
  3. Humans still design systems and verification while agents write the code 98%

Evidence

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