Twenty Claude's in a Trenchcoat

Home — Wednesday 7th Jan ‘26

I read a tweet recently from Boris, the guy who leads the Claude Code team, talking about his setup. Ten local Claudes, ten in the cloud. All somehow doing meaningful work.

I find this impossible to imagine. How are you supposed to review 50-100 significant changes to a codebase in a week? Obviously, he is biased because he works for the company that makes Claude, but the fact that saying “I run 20 AI’s in parallel and ship so much code” ISN’T a thing that just gets laughed out of the room is mental to me.

Part of it I’m sure is the current tech culture we live in, which has become so tied to the values of capitalism. It’s no longer enough to write software (or a blog) for a hundred, or a thousand people. We need SCALE. With scale, comes return on investment (eventually). Software “scales” much better than making candles. Write it once, deploy it to millions.

But we still have a single, tiny head with which to do all the actual checking of whether the AI code works (or we just get another AI to do it).

Productivity porn, and a race to the bottom for knowledge work of all kinds. Despite being obviously a depressing world to live in, what do any of these tech evangelists actually think all this is going to do to labour’s share of power?

I expect they don’t care. They’ve got their bag.