The opening keynote for Code with Claude kicks off Anthropic's developer event with themes of exponential growth, new platform capabilities, and how developers are already using Claude to build transformative products across medicine, infrastructure, and personal tools.
Code with Claude opens with Anthropic's leadership welcoming a room of developers and platform engineers. The day is structured around how to extract more value from the Claude Platform — not just through capability updates but through architectural patterns that compound over time.
The keynote anchors on Anthropic's experience being on the exponential: planning for 10x growth, experiencing 80x. This context frames why platform reliability, compute availability, and scalable patterns matter so acutely right now.
The session previews what will be demonstrated throughout the day: improvements to prompt caching and context management, the advisor strategy for cost-effective intelligence boosts, Managed Agents for stateful long-running workflows, and Claude Code improvements spanning LSP integration, background subagents, and the SDK.
Several inspiring deployments are highlighted: Stripe using Claude to execute large-scale infrastructure migrations autonomously, a nonprofit using Claude Code to match children in foster care to families faster, and teams in biomedical research using Claude to accelerate drug discovery workflows.
The keynote closes with a forward-looking framing: the transition from individual productivity to team and organization-scale AI, and the challenge of keeping verification, security, and code quality in pace with the acceleration in output volume.
"We're not just making individuals more productive — we're starting to think about what it means to make whole teams and whole organizations more productive in a way that is more than just the sum of its parts."
"The developer community gives honest feedback, and that is actually really hard to get. It's like the best partnership."