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Claude Code & Theory

A new wave of A.I. coding tools are impressive and empowering enough to make one imagine a future where we’re all coding our own apps and software engineers are a thing of the past. But these days, it still takes a pro (or armies of them) to get it right.

Dario Amodei
Last March, Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei predicted that 90 percent of all code would be written by A.I. by the middle of last year. That didn’t quite pan out, but we are entering an era where amateurs with little to no software development expertise are, well, developing software. Photo: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Ian Krietzberg
January 20, 2026

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Though there are dozens of A.I. coding tools out there, Anthropic’s Claude Code seems to exist at the center of what feels like an actual revolution—one of the first real examples of the radical impact that A.I. is sure to have on software development, and the subject of fawning headlines like “Move Over, ChatGPT” (The Atlantic) and “Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away” (The Journal). It’s a boon, of course, for Anthropic, and a sign that its focus on coding and enterprise applications is paying off. Anthropic’s Boris Cherny claimed that his team built the recently released Claude Cowork software in under two weeks using Claude Code.