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Anthropic's Claude Code, launched Feb 2025, rides wave of industry buzz
Why does Claude Code matter now? While the model rolled out in February 2025, its ascent has been anything but sudden. Over the past year, Anthropic has reportedly multiplied its business clientele eight times, a growth spurt that catches the eye of anyone tracking enterprise‑grade language models.
The Verge’s conversations with more than a dozen engineers and industry insiders reveal a consensus: the product’s “in‑vogue” reputation didn’t appear out of thin air. Here’s the thing—developers have been testing Claude Code’s code‑generation chops for months, and the feedback loop seems to have accelerated adoption across startups and larger firms alike. Yet the hype isn’t just noise; it reflects a broader shift toward specialized AI assistants that can handle both natural‑language queries and programming tasks.
The question on everyone’s mind is whether the momentum can sustain itself. Anthropic first released Claude Code in February 2025, and its recent in‑vogue status has been a long time coming, according to more than a dozen tech industry leaders and engineers The Verge spoke with. Anthropic told The Verge that in the past year, it has increased eightfold its number of busines…
Anthropic first released Claude Code in February 2025, and its recent in-vogue status has been a long time coming, according to more than a dozen tech industry leaders and engineers The Verge spoke with. Anthropic told The Verge that in the past year, it has increased eightfold its number of business customers that each represent more than $1 million in revenue run rate. The company also won more categories than any of its competitors in Scale AI's "Model of the Year" awards, including "best agentic model" for its performance on popular leaderboards and benchmarks.
Still, the pace of developers switching to Claude Code over the holidays "is not something I think any of us anticipated," Maggie Basta, a partner at Scale Venture Partners, said. "The move from different agentic coding interfaces to Claude Code has been pretty astonishing." Industry figures attribute part of the success to an Anthropic holiday promotion, which doubled rate limits for certain subscribers and drew in new or casual users while they had extra time over the break. "For people who don't do this stuff every day … going from that to, 'Oh shit, this is really impressive' -- that, I think, helped a lot," Austin Parker, director of open source at Honeycomb, said.
Much of Claude Code's success, though, is due to Anthropic's Opus 4.5 model, released days before Thanksgiving. Opus 4.5 moved the needle on Claude's popularity for virtually every tech industry source The Verge spoke with.
Claude Code has certainly captured attention. Yet the buzz may be fleeting. The product, unveiled in February 2025, has drawn praise from more than a dozen industry leaders, who note Anthropic’s eight‑fold increase in business engagements over the past year.
Boris Cherny, the creator, is frequently approached for selfies in bars and airports, a sign of the model’s cultural reach. Still, enthusiasm does not guarantee longevity. The Verge’s coverage highlights the ease with which users can ask Claude to “build the magic castle,” but it offers no hard data on sustained performance or adoption beyond the initial hype.
Moreover, the rapid scaling of business contacts raises questions about integration depth and customer retention. Unclear whether the current momentum will translate into lasting market share. As the conversation shifts from novelty to utility, only further evidence will clarify Claude Code’s place among its peers.
For now, the story remains one of notable early interest, tempered by the usual uncertainties of a nascent technology.
Further Reading
- Anthropic's Claude Code is having its "ChatGPT" moment - Uncover Alpha
- How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic - Anthropic
- Reflections of Claude Code from CHANGELOG - DEV Community
- Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic primitives - Anthropic
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Common Questions Answered
What unique capabilities does Claude Code offer for developers?
[theverge.com](https://theverge.com/news/618440/anthropic-claude-3-7-sonnet-ai-model-hybrid-reasoning) reports that Claude Code can search and read code, edit files, write and run tests, commit and push code to GitHub, and use command line tools. It is designed to be an active coding collaborator that can work autonomously on complex programming tasks.
How long can Anthropic's latest AI models work autonomously?
[theverge.com](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/787524/anthropic-releases-claude-sonnet-4-5-in-latest-bid-for-ai-agents-and-coding-supremacy) indicates that Claude Sonnet 4.5 can run autonomously for 30 hours straight, which is a significant improvement from the previous Opus 4 model that could only operate for seven hours. In one test, the model generated approximately 11,000 lines of code while completing a chat app project.
What makes Claude's hybrid reasoning approach different from other AI models?
[theverge.com](https://theverge.com/news/618440/anthropic-claude-3-7-sonnet-ai-model-hybrid-reasoning) explains that Anthropic wanted to simplify the user experience by integrating reasoning capabilities directly into the model. The hybrid reasoning approach allows the AI to provide both real-time answers and more considered, 'thought-out' responses by spending additional time analyzing and processing complex problems.