Name: A conversation on Claude Code
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Are we sure we want to give it to people?

Because this is the same tool everyone at Anthropic uses every day.

I lead Cloud Relations here at Anthropic.

I'm a member of technical staff and creator of Cloud Code.

Today, we're going to be talking about Cloud Code.

Boris, to start, what is Cloud Code, and how did it come about?

Cloud Code is a way to do agentic coding in the terminal.

So you don't have to adopt new tools, you don't have to use new IDs, you don't have to use a particular website or anything.

It's just agentic coding, and it works wherever you work.

And I think that actually came out of the way Anthropic engineers and researchers use tools to get the job done.

Because people have all sorts of different stacks.

There isn't one normal stack everyone uses.

There's people that use the Zed ID, and there's people that use VS Code, and then there's people that are like, you're never going to take my Vim from me, probably from my cold, dead hands.

And we wanted to build something that works for everyone.

And that's how we ended up in the terminal.

So the terminal is almost the most universal of all the interfaces, in that it's flexible, and it's incorporated into everybody's workflow already.

And it also just happens to be the simplest.

And because it's so simple, we get to iterate really fast.

That's kind of in hindsight, it turned out to be a good thing, but it definitely wasn't the intent from the start.

So if I'm a new developer and I want to be using Cloud Code, what does that look like to actually get this product working?

It's npm install-g add-anthropic-ai-cloud-code.

So you download it, you just need Node.js on your system, and a lot of people have that.

You open it up, and it'll walk you through everything else.

So you just type Cloud into the terminal, hit enter, and then that's it.

And Cloud will guide you through the rest of the process, and then you can just start talking to it, and it'll start coding.

One of the cool things is Cloud works in any terminal, like you said.

So if you use iTerm2 or Apple Terminal or whatever terminal you use, even in an SSH session or TMAC session, it'll work.

One of the top ways that people use Cloud Code is within IDE terminals.

So one thing you can do is run Cloud within, for example, VS Code terminal, and it'll become more powerful.

So instead of seeing file edits in the terminal, you're going to see them nice and big and beautiful in the IDE itself.

And we use more signals from the IDE also to make Cloud more intelligent.

So there's a lot there that I want to get to in a second, but before we get to that, so we released Cloud Code in February.

What's the reaction been from the community?

Before we released it, we weren't sure if we want to release it.

It was this tool that internally makes our engineers and researchers so productive.

And yeah, I think it turned out to be kind of the right decision, because it makes people more productive and people like it.

What was the moment that you knew we had to ship it?

So it started kind of in a small group, and it was just a few people in our core team using it.

And then at some point we gave it to all Anthropic employees, and there was this DAU chart.

So the daily actives, just looking at employees, and it was vertical for three days straight.

And we were like, all right, this is crazy.

And then at some point we gave it to a few people externally just to see, are we crazy?

And all of the feedback was just super positive.

So it really took fire within Anthropic first.

And then all the engineers, all the researchers were using it themselves, and that made it pretty obvious for us that we should put it out into the world as well.

Yeah, and that's a big way that we developed this thing.

Almost all the code in Quad Code has been written and rewritten and rewritten using Quad Code.

It's so important because when you use a product that has obviously been dogfooded, you can feel it.

In the products I use every day, I can feel this is something that the team uses all the time, and this is not.

We just wanted this to be one of those products that when you pick it up and try it, it's obvious a lot of love went into it.

Who do you think is the ideal Quad Code customer right now?

I think the biggest thing is Quad Code is pretty expensive.

If you're coding on the weekends, you can try it for a little bit.

You get an API key and put in $5 and you can just try it.

But if you want to use it for more serious work, it'll cost you $50, $100, $200 a month, something like this.

There's a lot of enterprises that are using it, so if you're in a big company, it tends to be a really good fit.

You just run it and it works out of the box for pretty much every big code base in any language.

One thing that we found is when people were using API keys to pay for this, they were a little worried about their usage.

They didn't use it as much as they wanted.

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