Last updated Oct 24, 2026
Thariq Shihipar and Anthony Morris, key members of Anthropic’s Claude Code team, announced their departures after more than a year on the project that builds an agentic coding tool for planning, editing, and iterating codebases. Both expressed deep gratitude for their colleagues and the community’s feature requests that impacted millions, framing the moves as personal breaks rather than mission critiques. The exits come weeks before Anthropic’s targeted mid-November 2026 IPO, potentially valued at $1.5 to $2 trillion, with colleague Lydia Hallie sharing warm farewells and anticipation for their future feedback.
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