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Boris Cherny: 'Just a Few of Us' Built MCP, Skills, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code at Anthropic Labs
Boris Cherny, an Anthropic Labs engineer, revealed the origin story behind Anthropic's most impactful developer products in a tweet that hit 9,288 likes and 981K views. The Anthropic Labs team — a small group led by Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and Ben Mann — shipped MCP (now 97M monthly downloads), Skills, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code (now a billion-dollar product). Cherny described the team as 'just a few of us, shipping fast, trying to keep pace with what the model was capable of.' This confirms Anthropic's most consequential developer tools emerged from a small incubation team, not a massive engineering org.
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