Code with Claude 2025

What it was

Code with Claude was Anthropic's first major standalone developer
conference, held over two days at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The
event brought together Claude Code users, SDK builders, and the broader
Anthropic developer community for a mix of keynotes, hands-on workshops,
and product announcements.

Attendance was over 1,500. The conference established what's now an annual
cadence — Anthropic followed Code with Claude with regional Builder
Summits later in the year (Paris, Seoul) and the Builder Club university
program.

Why it mattered

Three things came out of the event:

• Claude Code formalized as a product line. Pre-event, Claude Code

was understood as Anthropic's CLI-first IDE wrapper. Post-event, it was clearly positioned as a co-equal product line alongside claude.ai itself.

• Computer Use enters mainstream developer conversation. Demos of

Claude controlling browser-based applications via Computer Use signaled where the agentic story was heading.

• Builder Club program launched. Anthropic's university-focused

Builder Club program was unveiled at the conference, with the initial chapters at Georgia Tech and NBC.

Format details

• Duration: 2 days, 9am – 5pm
• Tracks: Keynotes, technical workshops, fireside chats with the

Anthropic engineering team

• Notable sessions: Claude Code internals deep-dive, Computer Use

capability demos, Anthropic SDK roadmap

Why it's worth remembering

Code with Claude set the format other AI coding companies have since
copied — single-vendor conference, focused on developers, with hands-on
workshops alongside keynotes. Cursor's later events and Lovable's
At Scale series both echo the format Anthropic established here.

Sources

• Code with Claude 2025 — Anthropic
• Anthropic events index