Claude Code is a developer tool for developers. And yet, over the last year, and especially the last few months, the Anthropic team has seen a huge number of people across industries and disciplines figure out how to access their terminal so they can also create new things. Few AI products have found the real product market fit for Claude Code. But how did it happen? And will we ever get out of the terminal?
On this episode VergecastAnthropic’s Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, explains how the project took off over the past year. Cherny made a lot of headlines recently when he said that Claude Code now writes 100 percent of his code and explained how his relationship with that code has changed. We also talk about Cowork and Anthropic’s continued efforts to make Claude Code (and everything) a little more accessible to regular users. It won’t just be chat windows, but no one is quite sure what that will be yet.
After that, The VergeHayden Field joins the show to continue our conversation from a few weeks ago about AI and privacy. All of these new agent systems demand extensive access to our data, our applications, even our devices themselves, in exchange for doing lots of useful things on our behalf. Hayden walks through the tradeoffs that come with this approach and how you should think about protecting your data going forward.
Finally, The VergeAllison Johnson helps David answer a question from the Vergecast hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!) about how the lack of RAM will affect your gadget purchases this year. Depending on who you are and how old your widgets are, it’s time to either do some maintenance or do some updating.
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