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jm4last Sunday at 5:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Probably because it consumes the same APIs originally developed for a web app and the same front end engineers likely created Claude Code. People assume Anthropic set out to create Code as a product and went through a normal design phase. I think it’s more likely it started as an internal tool or someone’s side project and blew up as a product when they released it to the public.


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w4derlast Sunday at 10:31 PM

But isn't the point of an API that it abstracts away the language(s) in which your application is written?