Kevin Roose

So one of them is OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

They have a new agentic coding system called Codex.

I have been using ClaudeCode, which is made by Anthropic, another AI company.

And these are the tools that have come out just in the past couple of months that have people feeling like things are really accelerating.

Cloud code sort of blew up.

Millions of people have been using it.

They are doing increasingly complex tasks with them.

People are using these in their jobs in the software industry.

And what's really changed is that if you talk to people at the big AI companies who used to program, who used to write code by hand, they'll say, I don't write any code anymore.

I basically supervise this team of agents and I kind of orchestrate them and set them off toward tasks.

And then I go get lunch and I come back and the work is done.

So this...

app, Claude Code, started as a side project.

Basically, an engineer at Anthropic named Boris Cherny had an idea.

He was trying to sort of get a sense of what Claude, Anthropic's chatbot, could do.

So he said, well, what if I just give it my computer?

What if I install Claude inside the terminal app, which is the app that you use to write code and interface with your computer if you're a programmer?

And what would happen if I just set Claude loose inside my computer with a bunch of tools, like give it the ability to write scripts, to create files, to organize things, to debug code.

And he starts seeing something really interesting happening around the office.

His colleagues are starting to use this tool to do their jobs.