SELF-TAUGHT PROGRAMMER DRIVES CLAUDE CODE TO $30B REVENUE
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Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, nearly left the company last summer but instead helped transform the coding agent into a rival to OpenAI. The product has accelerated Anthropic's annualized revenue to $30 billion.
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