Anthropic redesigned projects inside Claude Code this week, letting developers hand off multiple related tasks within one ongoing workspace instead of starting fresh each time. Previously, developers working on a large codebase had to manually re-brief Claude in every new conversation to avoid conflicting changes. The updated Projects feature keeps that context live across tasks, so Claude tracks how one assignment affects another and adjusts its work as the project shifts. Anthropic is positioning the tool less as a single-request chatbot and more as a coordinator across a whole workstream, what the company is calling a coding "chief of staff". In March 2025, the CEO of Y Combinator, Garry Tan, announced that about 95% of the code was created by AI in about a quarter of the winter batch of the accelerator, enabling some 10-member teams to compete with the productivity of 50-100 engineers. A 2026 survey of more than 1,100 developers by an AI coding startup Sonar found that while AI produced 42 per cent of their code, 96 per cent didn't fully trust the output, and 38 per cent said reviewing AI-written code took longer than reviewing a colleague's. Claude Code is competing in a crowded field that includes OpenAI's Codex, Amazon's Kiro, Cognition's Devin, and vibe-coding platforms like Replit and Lovable.