How Claude Code is used in practice
Agentic coding has taken off. The share of GitHub projects with coding agent activity has more than doubled since late 2025,1 and Claude Code users now spend an average of 20 hours per week using the tool.2 Can people without formal coding experience successfully direct an agent through complex technical work? And what will rapid…
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New Anthropic research looking at interactive agentic coding. We evaluate the composition of tasks, human-AI collaboration, and success rates.
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