“Something like over 70 percent of [Anthropic’s] pull requests are now Claude code written,” Krieger told me. As for what those engineers are doing with the extra time, Krieger said they’re orchestrating the Claude codebase and, of course, attending meetings. “It really becomes apparent how much else is in the software engineering role,” he noted.
The pair fiddled with Voss water bottles and answered an array of questions from the press about an upcoming compute cluster with Amazon (Amodei says “parts of that cluster are already being used for research,”) and the displacement of workers due to AI (“I don’t think you can offload your company strategy to something like that,” Krieger said).
We’d been told by spokespeople that we weren’t allowed to ask…