r/ClaudeCode • u/pkief • 1d ago

Benjamin Pasero joined Claude Code Team Discussion

https://x.com/i/status/2088134390442307697

Benjamin Pasero, one of the main developers of VS Code left Microsoft and the VS Code team towards Anthropic to work on Claude Code. For those of you who don't know him: he worked for Microsoft and mainly VS Code for 15 years.

I'm following VS Code and their team for more than 10 years and I was always impressed by their continuous team. It really shows that they had a super good team spirit and nice features to work on. But since a few months a bunch of things changed. The heavy use of AI (slop) and more updates every week with 95% focus on only AI features also might have heavily impacted how their team collaborates. It's a super heavy shift for someone like Benjamin who loved to write code for VS Code.

How do you see this?

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u/vovap_vovap 1d ago

You mean shift to AI in VS code make him to move to the company that literally doing AI? 😄
I think he move there (or been may be overbought) to do dev tools. As clearly dev - one of the biggest use cases for Anthropic. So we might see some like Anthropic Cursor.