In May 2026, Anthropic averaged around 2,500 code changes merged per day; as of September, we merged over 30,000 per day.
AnthropicPublished by the organization itself (post), no named author
Post: Anthropic (own site), Anthropic (own site), October 13, 2026.
Anthropic sells AI or agent tooling, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).
Exact match, including the semicolon and the figures 2,500 and 30,000. Anthropic's own post.
Anthropic, “Anthropic (own site)”, Anthropic (own site), 2026-10-13. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/anthropic-may-2026-anthropic-averaged-around-2-500-2026
Anthropic uses Claude to write software far more than almost any other company
AnthropicPublished by the organization itself (post), no named author
Post: Anthropic (own site), Anthropic (own site), October 13, 2026.
Very often, we found that the role of the engineers was to tell Claude “no.”
AnthropicPublished by the organization itself (post), no named author
Post: Anthropic (own site), Anthropic (own site), October 13, 2026.
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