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Claude Code creator Boris Cherny discusses Anthropic's 250% increase in code written per engineer without quality loss, and advises companies to allow experimentation and psychological safety for AI adoption.

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny: Anthropic’s reported jump of roughly 250% in code written per engineer without a visible collapse in quality. And here's his advice for other companies to achieve the same. - Companies should not over-control AI usage. Instead of making employees ask for approval for every token, companies should give people enough access to experiment and discover useful workflows. - Psychological safety is essential for AI adoption. Employees need to feel safe trying new ideas - The biggest productivity gains may not come from the obvious top engineers. They might come from accountants, marketers, new graduates. --- "What happened with Claude is that now many companies, including Anthropic and all of our biggest customers, are reporting gains on the order of hundreds of percentage points. I think the last number that we reported is that the amount of code written per engineer at Anthropic has grown something like 250% since we introduced Claude Code. This is while keeping code quality, reliability, and all these things kind of stable. So, without those things regressing, the volume of code has grown a lot. This kind of productivity impact, I think, is just very new, and people are trying to figure out how to get this." ---- From "Alex Kantrowitz" (@Kantrowitz) YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
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Claude Code creator Boris Cherny: Anthropic’s reported jump of roughly 250% in code written per engineer without a visible collapse in quality.

And here’s his advice for other companies to achieve the same.

  • Companies should not over-control AI usage. Instead of making employees ask for approval for every token, companies should give people enough access to experiment and discover useful workflows.

  • Psychological safety is essential for AI adoption. Employees need to feel safe trying new ideas

  • The biggest productivity gains may not come from the obvious top engineers. They might come from accountants, marketers, new graduates.


“What happened with Claude is that now many companies, including Anthropic and all of our biggest customers, are reporting gains on the order of hundreds of percentage points.

I think the last number that we reported is that the amount of code written per engineer at Anthropic has grown something like 250% since we introduced Claude Code. This is while keeping code quality, reliability, and all these things kind of stable. So, without those things regressing, the volume of code has grown a lot.

This kind of productivity impact, I think, is just very new, and people are trying to figure out how to get this.“


From “Alex Kantrowitz” (@Kantrowitz) YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

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