‘I am not joking,’ says Google engineer as Anthropic’s Claude Code recreates a year of work in just one hour

A recent post by a senior Google engineer has ignited strong reactions across the tech industry, raising fresh questions about how fast AI tools are changing software development. The engineer revealed that an AI coding tool built a working system in one hour something her team had spent nearly a year developing. The post quickly went viral online, catching the attention of developers, managers, and tech leaders around the world.