What Steve Yegge thinks about Anthropic

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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.

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11 Mar 2026

Our readingAgents can build about half a million lines before the codebase dissolves into a mess, and the next model will push that to a few million.

Their wordsBut right now I think it's sitting somewhere between half million and five million lines of code, somewhere in there. Probably more on the half million side right now and with the next drop of an Anthropic model, we're probably going to see it jump up to a few million lines.

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