According to Boris Cherny on X, Claude Code marked its one-year research preview with documented adoption across weekend prototypes, production-grade apps, enterprise software at large companies, and even support for planning a Mars rover drive, highlighting broad developer utility and reliability (source: Boris Cherny, X, Feb 25, 2026). As reported by Anthropic’s community updates over the past year, Claude Code integrates code understanding, refactoring, and test generation to accelerate software delivery, improving developer velocity and enabling rapid iteration for startups and enterprises alike (source: Anthropic developer posts). According to user-shared case studies on X, teams leverage Claude Code for code review, multi-file reasoning, and tool-assisted workflows, indicating strong fit for long-context coding tasks and complex refactors that reduce time-to-release and cloud spend through fewer CI cycles (source: X user case threads cited by Boris Cherny’s post).

According to @bcherny, developers can enable worktree mode in the Claude Code Desktop app by opening the Code tab and checking worktree mode, which streamlines multi-branch development without using the terminal. As reported by Anthropic’s official docs, Claude Code Desktop supports a Desktop Quickstart with instructions at code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-quickstart#install, enabling safer branch isolation and faster context switching for AI-assisted coding. According to Anthropic, this setup reduces friction when using Claude for code generation, refactoring, and reviews across parallel branches, improving throughput for teams adopting AI pair programming.

According to Claude, Anthropic has introduced a Local Code Review feature where developers can click Review code before pushing, and Claude leaves inline comments on bugs and issues ahead of a full code review, as reported via the @claudeai post on Feb 20, 2026. According to Anthropic’s announcement on X, this workflow enables earlier defect detection, faster PR turnaround, and improved developer productivity by surfacing issues in-line within the IDE or staging branch prior to opening a pull request. According to the same source, teams can reduce reviewer load by pre-triaging style violations, security smells, and test gaps, creating a tighter feedback loop similar to pre-commit hooks but powered by LLM context across diffs and project files. Business-wise, according to Anthropic’s post, engineering leaders can expect lower cycle times, fewer context-switches, and higher code quality baselines, opening opportunities to standardize policies, enforce guardrails, and measure impact through pre-PR issue resolution metrics.

According to Claude on X (Twitter), Anthropic’s Claude Code for desktop now supports live preview of running apps, automated code review, and background handling of CI failures and pull requests, as shown in the announced video post on February 20, 2026. According to Anthropic’s announcement on X, the live app preview lets developers inspect UI state while coding, which can shorten debug cycles and speed feature iteration for web and desktop apps. As reported by Claude’s official account, automated code review surfaces diffs with suggested fixes, enabling teams to standardize reviews and reduce manual toil in large repos. According to the same source, background CI failure triage and PR handling allow the agent to read logs, propose patches, and open or update PRs, which can cut mean time to repair in continuous integration pipelines and improve release velocity for startups and enterprise teams. For businesses, according to Claude’s post, these capabilities create opportunities to reduce review backlog, enforce coding conventions, and scale developer productivity across monorepos and microservices without expanding headcount.

According to @bcherny, developers can run /config in Claude Code to set output styles that change the assistant’s tone and format for coding tasks, including an explanatory style for understanding frameworks and patterns and a learning style for coaching code changes, as reported by the linked Claude Code documentation (code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles). According to the Claude Code docs, configurable styles let teams standardize AI-assisted reviews and onboarding, improving code comprehension and reducing back-and-forth in pull requests. For engineering leaders, this enables consistent developer workflows, faster ramp-up on new codebases, and measurable productivity gains in code review and refactoring, according to the same source.