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Wow this is insane.

Anthropic recently released Claude Code: a brand new AI assistant that’s going to have huge impacts on software development as a whole.

This is quite different from IDE-integrating tools like GitHub Copilot or Windsurf Cascade.

This works standalone in the command line — you can use it in any terminal to make huge changes to your codebase.

The intelligence is incredible, just look at this: Claude Code literally just did all the coding by itself on a project for a full hour and a half — zero human assistance.

That’s right — 90 actual minutes of total hands-free autonomous coding genius with zero bugs. The progress is wild

Claude Code acts as an intelligent collaborator, capable of understanding your entire codebase, automating complex tasks, and accelerating your development workflow.

Fundamentally Claude Code is here to be an active participant in the coding process.

It can search and read through your project’s files, make edits, write and execute tests, and even manage Git workflows like committing and pushing code.

This is all done transparently, keeping you the developer in the loop at every stage.

Claude Code boasts a range of powerful features that set it apart as a next-generation coding tool:

Thanks to agentic search, Claude Code can map and comprehend the structure and dependencies of your entire project without requiring you to manually specify context files.