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Comment by nicoburns

21 hours ago

> Claude Code as the most popular software project ever

I don't think that's true? The likes of Chrome, Linux, curl, sqlite, etc, are much more widely used.

I'm not being literal. Revolutionary technology arrives on the scene, is extremely visible, changes a whole industry and frankly creates an entirely new economy. All eyes on Anthropic.

They don't get enough credit for being right in the middle of a revolution, yet still managing to ship something that largely works incredibly well, because this thing is a workhorse.

  • They don't get enough credit? Anthropic is making an insane amount of money. More popular software projects have made exponentially less and have received even less media attention/fame/whatever metric you might use to define success.