Google Engineer: Claude Code Did Year-Long Task in 1 Hour!

• Google Principal Engineer Jaana Dogan revealed Anthropic's Claude Code completed a task in 1 hour that Google's team spent a year developing.
• The task involved building systems for managing multiple AI agents, a problem Google's team had struggled to finalize.
• Dogan used a simplified, public version of the problem with a three-paragraph prompt, and Claude delivered a "shockingly close" solution.
• She noted Claude Code is allowed only for open-source projects at Google, not internal work, and Google is "working hard" to catch up with Gemini.
• Dogan praised the rapid evolution of AI coding, from single lines in 2022 to entire codebases in 2025, and highlighted AI's ability to bypass bureaucracy.

Why It Matters: AI coding tools like Claude Code are dramatically accelerating development, potentially replacing years of human effort.