{"id":251474,"date":"2026-05-21T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/anthropics-code-with-claude-showed-off-codings-future-whether-you-like-it-or-not\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:15:20","slug":"anthropics-code-with-claude-showed-off-codings-future-whether-you-like-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/anthropics-code-with-claude-showed-off-codings-future-whether-you-like-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future\u2014whether you like it or not"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthropic\u2019s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future\u2014whether you like it or not<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-21 10:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.technologyreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Pull requests are fixes or updates to existing software that are submitted for review before they go live. They are the bread and butter of software development, the chunks of code that most professional developers spend their lives writing\u2014or did until now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho here has shipped a pull request that was completely written by Claude where they did not read the code at all?\u201d Hadfield asked next. Nervous laughter. Most of the hands stayed up.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not news that LLM-powered tools like Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code and OpenAI\u2019s Codex have upended the way software gets made. Top tech companies now like to boast of how little code their developers write by hand. (\u201cMost software at Anthropic is now written by Claude,\u201d Hadfield said. \u201cClaude has written most of the code in Claude Code.\u201d) OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft make similar claims. Many others wish they could.<\/p>\n

Even so, it is striking how normal this new paradigm already seems, and how fast it has set in. This was the second year that Anthropic has put on developer events, which also run in San Francisco and Tokyo. This time last year, the company had just released Claude 4. It could code, kind of. But with Anthropic\u2019s latest string of updates\u2014especially Claude 4.6 and then 4.7, released in February and April\u2014Claude Code is a tool that more and more developers seem happy to hand their work off to.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let Claude cook.<\/p>\n

ANTHROPIC (GRAPHIC) \/ WILL DOUGLAS HEAVEN (PHOTO)<\/p>\n

Anthropic says its goal is to push automation as far as it will go. Instead of using AI to generate code and then having humans clean it up and fix the mistakes, it wants Claude to check and correct its own work. \u201cThe default isn\u2019t \u2018I\u2019m going to prompt Claude\u2019\u2014the default is now \u2018I\u2019m going to have Claude prompt itself,\u2019\u201d Boris Cherny, who heads Claude Code, said in the opening keynote.<\/p>\n

If all goes well, human developers shouldn\u2019t even see the error messages when something doesn\u2019t work. That will all…<\/p>\n

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