Anthropic's Claude Code started as a Side Project
It is interesting to know that Claude Code started as a side project by Boris Cherny (from Anthropic) which accounts for $1B in annualized run-rate now.
A year ago, Claude struggled to generate bash commands without escaping issues. It worked for seconds or minutes at a time. We saw early signs that it may become broadly useful for coding one day.
100%, Not just Claude Code but everything is AI space is growing in a rapid phase and even legends like Andrej Karpathy feels left behind