Claude has been having a moment — can it keep it up?
TL;DR
Anthropic's Claude and its coding platform have gained significant popularity recently, with creator Boris Cherny being recognized in public. The platform saw a surge over the holidays as users built diverse projects, sparking discussions on social media and in tech circles.
Boris Cherny gets recognized in public relatively often. At the bar, at the airport, and in generally any public space, people want to take selfies with the creator and head of Claude Code.
For the last couple of months, Anthropic's Claude and its coding platform have been having a moment - on social media, in engineers' circles, and in C-suite offices. Claude Code reached newfound popularity over the holidays, when people spent days or weeks building anything from a tool for viewing MRI results to a Goodreads alternative to an AI-generated T-shirt design contest with a complex judicial system. X posts in January proclaimed that "we are wi …