Top Anthropic engineer says Claude now writes 'literally all' her team's code
Katelyn Lesse, head of platform engineering at Anthropic, stated that her team now uses Claude to write all of their code. This shift toward AI-driven development is part of the company's strategy to maintain efficiency as it approaches a potential IPO.
Why it matters
It signals a significant shift in software engineering practices where AI agents are replacing human labor for core infrastructure tasks.
Katelyn Lesse, head of platform engineering at Anthropic. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic platform engineering head Katelyn Lesse said that Claude now writes all her team's code. Lesse shared ways that Claude Code has helped the company become more efficient. Anthropic nears an initial public offering at a potential $2 trillion valuation. A top Anthropic engineer says that Claude Code has already wiped out all human coding at one of the AI lab's central teams. Katelyn Lesse leads the AI startup's platform engineering group, which handles the company's core services, developer tools, and product infrastructure — it's essentially the engine room of Anthropic. Lesse said at Grafana Labs ' ObservabilityCON event on Tuesday that among her staff, which tallied 200 as of this summer, the era of human-written code is fully over.
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