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Anthropic’s Code with Claude Showcases Coding’s Future—Whether You Like It or Not
The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex, Anthropic staffers assured me.)
Key Takeaways
- The new paradigm of generating and shipping code with AI tools like Claude is already normalizing.
- Claude Code has become so powerful that more developers are happy to hand their work off to Claude without reviewing the generated code.
- Dreaming, a feature in Claude Code, helps agents learn from previous tasks by consolidating notes and spotting patterns across different contexts.
Even so, there have been reports of concerns over this bright new future. Some developers are questioning whether AI-generated code is fine or if it makes software development harder due to the extra code they now need to review. Others claim that their coding abilities have fallen off as they hand more tasks to AI.
I sat down with Claude engineering lead Katelyn Lesse and Claude product lead Angela Jiang and asked them what they made of these concerns. They both emphasized that old software development best practices still apply, even in this new era where tools like Claude are prevalent. “All of the old software development best practices still apply,” said Lesse. “I think there are a lot of people and teams that may have lost sight of them in this moment.”
As Anthropic and others push for greater automation, the temptation to offload more tasks increases. However, both Lesse and Jiang stressed that expert engineers will always be needed to design systems and troubleshoot harder problems.
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