Claude Code Got 2 Likes on Its First Internal Demo. Now It Writes 4% of All GitHub Code.

Boris Cherny shared an internal of Claude Code with Anthropic. It received two likes. Two. No one really believed a terminal-based coding tool was the way to go. They were all expecting an IDE plugin. Something sleek and with a GUI. Not a command line. Nevertheless, Boris persisted. He didn't have a roadmap or a mandate; he simply felt it was the right choice. So, he kept tinkering with it during nights and weekends. Why the terminal? He chose to build it on the terminal for a few simple reasons: first, he was one person, and the terminal was the quickest way to prototype it.