https://preview.redd.it/ppg0n81iym2h1.png?width=1079&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e4d583c1430cffba794b789d361d19382d012fc So Anthropic engineer Jeremy Hadfield unveiled some new autonomous coding agents for software devs at a special event in London on May 19 called Code with Claude. The 2-day meetup was timed exactly to overlap with the start of rival Google I/O. During the demo they showed AI agents writing, testing, and actually shipping full pull requests without constant human intervention. The system is built on updated Claude models that don’t just do basic autocomplete but actually work independently with your entire codebase. This new version also includes an adaptive thinking feature which lets the model decide on its own when it needs extra time to figure out complex tasks. Looking at the official benchmarks, the system is leading the industry right now in agentic coding tests on Terminal-Bench 2.0. When evaluating economically valuable knowledge tasks, Anthropic’s flagship model actually beats OpenAI’s latest GPT-5.2 by 144 Elo points, and it beats its own previous version by 190 points. Devs can already use the API to set up teams of agents that work together on larger projects. Integrating these kinds of autonomous systems into software creation is basically going to drastically cut down the time spent just typing out code. It forces a developer’s focus to shift over to broader platform architecture and planning instead. Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/21/1137735/anthropics-code-with-claude-showed-off-codings-future-whether-you-like-it-or-not/ submitted by /u/andrewaltair
Originally posted by u/andrewaltair on r/ArtificialInteligence