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Anthropic “When AI builds itself”
Anthropic reports that more than 80% of code merged into its production codebase in May 2026 was authored by Claude. It describes AI systems moving from snippets to autonomous agents and warns that recursive AI development could shift humans into oversight roles while compounding rare misalignment failures.
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Anthropic reports that more than 80% of code merged into its production codebase in May 2026 was authored by Claude.
