For the past six months I've been working with Claude models. First I built a personal assistant in Cursor, then installed the Claude Code extension for VS Code, then the desktop app, now I work with it in the terminal while running agents in the browser. I can't imagine a more responsive tool for building automations.
Since late last year, Claude Code went viral and reached an entirely new level. Anthropic launched Claude Code in May 2025. Less than a year later:
— $2.5B run-rate — Claude Code alone. It doubled since the start of 2026.
— $14B ARR for Anthropic overall. A year ago it was $1B. They have over 500 clients paying more than a million dollars per year.
— 4% of all public GitHub commits are made via Claude Code. In January it was 2%, by year-end it'll be 20%+.
In growth rate, Anthropic is already outpacing OpenAI: 10x/year vs 3.4x/year.
The success of Dario Amodei, Boris Cherny and others lies in being the first to bet on agentic workflows. Claude Code reads code on its own, plans tasks, and executes them iteratively. And it's so good that even without coding knowledge, it helps you figure everything out or solves the task entirely — you set the task and it comes back with a solution. This isn't editor suggestions like before — it's real work delegation.
If you want to go deeper, I recommend watching the latest episode of Lenny Rachitsky's podcast with Boris Cherny (the product's creator). He discusses what happens when coding is finally solved (spoiler: product managers might be next).