Ryan Knudson

Why are people making that comparison?

All right, tell me the story of how Cloud Code was created.

Czerny was just an engineer at Anthropic, among the company's rank and file.

He created Cloud Code as a tool to help him with his own job.

It only took him a couple days to build.

And when he shared it internally, in a company-wide Slack message, he had no idea how big of a deal it would become.

It was celebrated with two raised hands emojis in the company-wide Slack.

But as his colleagues started using it, it became pretty clear it had a lot of potential.

Anthropic released Claude Code to the public early last year, but it wasn't until a major update last November that it started going viral.

In early January, Ben started playing around with it too.

And that's when he sent those text messages to Joanna.

And as they were chatting, they got an idea for a way to really put Claude Coe to the test.

Joanna and Ben wanted to see if the two of them, two writers with almost no coding experience, could create an interactive article on the Wall Street Journal's website just by using cloud code.

They wanted the webpage to include screenshots of their chat messages with buttons that would allow readers to toggle into different formats.

So the conversation might initially look like messages on an iPhone, but click a button and the chat box would now look like AOL Instant Messenger from the 1990s.

And to make this, all Joanna had to do was describe her idea to Claude Code.

And then what happened next?

It did that, basically?

Ben and Joanna wrote all the words in the article and the chat messages between them.

But Claude wrote all the code.