Claude Code is one of a very few AI tools where I genuinely think the people at the company who build it use it all the time.
replyThey absolutely do, the CEO has come out and said a few engineers have told him that they dont even write code by hand anymore. To some people that sounds horrifying, but a good engineer would not just take code blindly, they would read it and refine it using Claude, while still saving hundreds of man hours.
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I know they do because of how painfully awful the Claude web/Claude desktops uxui is, as well as performance.
replywatch the interviews with Boris. He absolutely uses it to build CC.
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replyI would love to hear/see a definitive answer for this, but I read somewhere that the relationship between MS and \A is such that the copilot version of the \A models has a smaller context window than through CC.
replyThis would explain the "secret sauce", if it's true. But perhaps it's not and a lot is LLM nondeterminism mixing with human confirmation bias.