A new era of software development: Claude Code has Seattle engineers buzzing
- Jan 18
- 1 min read
Claude Code is “one of a new generation of AI coding tools that represent a sudden capability leap in AI in the past month or so,” wrote Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and AI researcher, in a Jan. 7 blog post.
Mollick notes that these tools are better at self-correcting their own errors and now have “agentic harness” that helps them work around long-standing AI limitations, including context-window constraints that affect how much information models can remember.
On stage at Thursday’s event, Rector demoed an app that automatically fixed front-end bugs by having Claude Code control a browser. Johnny Leung, a software engineer at Stripe, said Claude Code has changed how he thinks about being a developer. “It’s kind of evolving the mentality from just writing code to becoming like an architect, almost like a product manager,” he said on stage during his demo.
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