Anthropic survey: Most developers merged Claude-written PRs without review
At Anthropic's first European developer event, a show of hands revealed that most attendees had merged pull requests written entirely by Claude without reading the code.
At Anthropic's first European developer event, a show of hands revealed that most attendees had merged pull requests written entirely by Claude without reading the code.
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