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Sachin Malhotra, Engineer at Anthropic (author of the post). Wrote about work he did on Anthropic's CI service, so first-hand; Anthropic sells Claude Code, so the account is promotional.

Anthropic sells AI or agent tools or services, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.

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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, 2026-11-07).

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Sachin Malhotra (Anthropic), “Agentic coding is straining CI. Here’s how we scaled test impact analysis at Anthropic”, claude.com (Anthropic), 2026-09-14, at AI is evolving CI. https://claude.com/resources/articles/agentic-coding-is-straining-ci-heres-how-we-scaled-test-impact-analysis-at-anthropic Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/anthropic-writing-code-no-longer-constraint-ci-feels-pressure-2026

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My advice to engineering teams is, whether you build or buy, assume your architecture will be at a 25x load within two quarters.

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Post: Agentic coding is straining CI. Here’s how we scaled test impact analysis at Anthropic, claude.com (Anthropic), September 14, 2026, at What I would do differently.

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To drive some long-term fixes, I started a long-running session in an internal version of Claude Tag dedicated to monitoring the service. Anytime the listener lag would get more than 50,000 jobs behind, Claude would ping me and resume our conversation on next steps.

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Post: Agentic coding is straining CI. Here’s how we scaled test impact analysis at Anthropic, claude.com (Anthropic), September 14, 2026, at The bumpy road to redesign: Patch 2: Sharding.

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This project took three weeks for a single engineer. A year ago it would have been closer to a quarter.

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Post: Agentic coding is straining CI. Here’s how we scaled test impact analysis at Anthropic, claude.com (Anthropic), September 14, 2026, at The redesign.

  • 3 weeks project duration, service redesign, 2026. AI assists a person

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Anthropic: $47 billion revenue, run-rate, May 2026 Sells AI tools Passage page

the amount of tests across our codebase grew 10x and we added a nominal amount of engineers. This all led to a 25x increase in CI jobs over a six month period

Sachin MalhotraAnthropic engineer (author) · Practitioner, Anthropic

Post: Agentic coding is straining CI. Here’s how we scaled test impact analysis at Anthropic, claude.com (Anthropic), September 14, 2026, at AI is evolving CI.

  • 25 x ci jobs, a six month period before September 2026. Level not stated
  • 10 x tests in codebase, same period. Level not stated

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Anthropic: $47 billion revenue, run-rate, May 2026 Sells AI tools Passage page

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