Cloud Code is a developer tool for developers. And yet, over the past year, and especially the past few months, the team at Anthropic has seen a huge number of people across industries and disciplines figure out how to access their terminals so they can create new things, too. Few AI products have found real product-market fit like cloud code. But how did this happen? And will we ever get out of the terminal?
But This episode of The VergecastAnthropic’s Boris Cherny, head of cloud code, explains how the project has progressed over the past year. Cherny has made a lot of headlines Recently he wrote 100 percent of his own code, saying Cloud Codes now writes 100 percent of his own code, and he describes how his relationship with that code has changed. We also talk about Cowork and Anthropic’s ongoing effort to make cloud code (and everything else) a little more accessible to everyday users. It won’t just be a chat window, but no one is sure yet what it will be.
after this, The VergeHayden Fields joins the show to continue our conversation from a few weeks ago about AI and privacy. These new agentic systems demand widespread access to our data, our apps, even our devices in exchange for doing lots of useful things on our behalf. Hayden explains the tradeoffs inherent in that access and how you should think about protecting your data going forward.
At the end, The VergeAlison Johnson helps David answer a question from the VergeCast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!) about how the RAM shortage will affect your gadget purchases this year. Depending on who you are and how old your gadgets are, it’s time to either do some maintenance or do some upgrades.
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