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Claude Code from Anthropic was always a helpful coding assistant, but in November 2025, it suddenly got much better.
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Paul Ford
On weekday evenings, heading home on the subway from Union Square in New York City, I log into an AI tool from my phone, and write a prompt.
“Look at the data in the files I just uploaded,” I tap. “Load it into a database, then make it searchable with a web interface.” Underground in the subway tunnels my internet connection drops, but when my train emerges onto the Manhattan Bridge, I get a few minutes to see all the work my coding agent has done, and if I type fast enough I can issue another prompt.
