Claude Code made an astonishing $1B in 6 months - and my own AI-coded iPhone app shows why

Amazing stuff! Will we all be coders soon with the help of ML & AI!

"ZDNET's key takeaways

• Claude Code hit $1 billion fast by transforming real developer workflows.
• Agentic coding built my complex iPhone app in just 11 days.
• Early command-line access gave Claude Code a huge adoption edge.

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Anthropic's Claude Code, a programmer's tool, just reached $1 billion in revenue a mere six months after its release. ...

Let's put this in perspective. The IT world's last mega-shift was cloud computing, spearheaded by Amazon's AWS, which launched in 2006. According to Forbes, AWS reached $500 million by 2010 and was expected to reach $1 billion by the end of 2011. ..."

Claude Code made an astonishing $1B in 6 months - and my own AI-coded iPhone app shows why | ZDNET "My complex app, built entirely through agentic coding, reveals the true force multiplier transforming how developers create products at astonishing speed."

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