Ex-Chrome leader Addy Osmani joins Anthropic to work on Claude Code
trq212 · x · 2026-09-08
Addy Osmani, the well-known Google Chrome engineering leader, announced he has joined Anthropic, where he will work on Claude Code to make it better for developers. The thread is an Anthropic colleague welcoming him aboard; Osmani also shared a small demo built with Fable and Three.js.
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