Keep pulling the thread on Boris Cherny.
Boris Czerny predicts that the job title 'software engineer' will go away as AI handles coding and engineers become generalist 'builders' or 'product managers'.
Depending on the team, between 70% and 90% of the code at Anthropic is written by the Quad AI agent.
At Anthropic, the product development strategy is to build for the expected capabilities of AI models six months in the future, not for their current performance.
Since the introduction of Cloud Code, productivity per engineer at Anthropic has grown by 150%.
Citing a statistic from semi-analysis, Boris Czerny states that 4% of all public code commits are made by QuadCode.
NASA used Cloud Code to help plot the course for the Perseverance Mars rover.
The plugins feature for Cloud Code was built entirely by a swarm of AI agents over a weekend with minimal human intervention.
The entire codebase for the Cloud Code application is rewritten so frequently that no part of the code that existed six months ago is still in use.
Anthropic defines AI Safety Level 4 (ASL4) as the point where a model becomes recursively self-improving.
An early version of Cloud Code, using the Sonnet 3.5 model, was able to write an AppleScript to identify the music playing on a user's Mac.
The 'plan mode' feature in Cloud Code was created in 30 minutes on a Sunday night in response to observing user behavior on GitHub and internal Slack channels.
At its general availability in February 2024, Cloud Code was only capable of writing about 10% of a developer's code.