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At one lab nobody has hand-written code in months

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At Anthropic reportedly nobody has hand-written code in months, with engineers running multiple agents in parallel and directing them like a product manager, while Google's internal asynchronous coding tool became so popular that access had to be restricted.

Reporting date: 2026-03-28 (not necessarily the event date)

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At one lab nobody has hand-written code in months
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Reporting date: 2026-03-28
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-28-nobody-hand-writes-code-any-more
Claim: At Anthropic reportedly nobody has hand-written code in months, with engineers running multiple agents in parallel and directing them like a product manager, while Google's internal asynchronous coding tool became so popular that access had to be restricted.
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- Welcome to March 28, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-28-2026
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