Anthropic's Code with Claude showed off coding's future — whether you like it or not

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good, and Anthropic's first developer conference made the new shape of the profession impossible to ignore.

MIT Tech Review's coverage of Anthropic's inaugural Code with Claude event walks through the demos (long-running agents, a SpaceX compute deal, persistent teammates) and lands on a clear thesis: AI is no longer assisting software engineers, it's authoring production systems, and the human role is shifting toward specification, review, and orchestration. The article pairs well with Anthropic's own claim — disclosed the same week — that more than 80% of its new production code is now authored by Claude (see entry #3), and that Claude Code's creator Boris Cherny has publicly walked back his earlier "AI has solved coding" framing as 100% AI-authored repos hit maintainability walls.