BREAKING
The Making of Claude Code
From CLI experiment to GA
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CLI prototype Sep 2024
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Dogfooding Nov 2024
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Preview Feb 2025
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GA May 2025
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Terminal-first, not IDE-bound
Claude Code
CLI
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Whole-codebase understanding
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Parallel Subagents
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Skills and git integration
IDE tools
e.g. Cursor
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IDE-integrated
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Editor-centric workflow
A game changer with caveats
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Anthropic reveals how Claude Code grew from an internal experiment into a full product.