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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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.
How this was checked
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. The page uses curly quotes around “no.”, which is an allowed normalization. Anthropic's own post.
How to cite this passage
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-very-often-found-role-engineers-tell-claude-2026
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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.
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.
- 30,000 prs merged, per day, as of September 2026
- 2,500 prs merged, per day, May 2026 average
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