Addy Osmani joins Anthropic to work on Claude Code
addyosmani · x · 2026-09-08
Addy Osmani, long-time Chrome engineering leader and author of several popular technical books, announced he has joined Anthropic. He will work on Claude Code, focusing on improving the experience for developers who use it, and shared a small showcase built with Fable and Three.js. It's a notable talent addition to Anthropic's coding-tool efforts.
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