Comment by tedmiston

i think you are conflating anthropic (the startup) with claude code (the leaked source of one of said startup's products)

i.e., the claude code codebase doesn't need to be good right now [^1] — so i don't think the assumption that this is an exemplary product / artifact of expert agentic coding actually holds up here specifically

[^1]: the startup graveyard is full of dead startups with good code