January 1, 2026 AI-DIGEST BY MAURO SICARD

Claude Code is now writing itself

#AIAgents #DevTools #AutonomousCoding

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, revealed that he hasn't opened an IDE in 30 days. Every line of code shipped to Claude Code was written by Claude Code itself.

Boris Cherny @bcherny Dec 30

In the last 30 days, 100% of my contributions to Claude Code have been written by Claude Code + Opus 4.5.

♡ 4.2K ↻ 892
Boris Cherny @bcherny

259 PRs. 497 commits. 40k lines added. 38k lines removed.

All generated by AI, reviewed by humans.

Boris Cherny @bcherny

First month I haven't opened an IDE at all. Sessions ran for hours, sometimes days at a time using stop hooks.

The future of coding is supervision, not implementation.

Editor's take This is the clearest signal yet that AI-assisted development is shifting to AI-led development. The question isn't whether this will change programming — it's how fast.

SoftBank bets $40B on OpenAI

#Funding #OpenAI #Infrastructure

In one of the largest private funding rounds ever, SoftBank completed a $40B investment in OpenAI. To fund it, Masa Son sold his entire Nvidia position.

Sam Altman @sama Dec 30

Excited to welcome SoftBank as our largest investor.

♡ 12.8K ↻ 3.2K
Sam Altman @sama

The Stargate project will ensure America leads in AI infrastructure for decades to come.

Building the future requires serious capital. This is how we get there.

The bigger picture SoftBank now owns ~11% of OpenAI. The Stargate infrastructure venture is their bet that controlling compute will be as important as controlling the models themselves.