By Sanya Jain
Publication Date: 2026-01-04 05:36:00
A senior Google engineer says that Anthropic’s Claude Code built in one hour a system that took Google one year to make. Jaana Dogan, Principal Engineer at Google, said that the agentic AI coding tool was tasked with generating a distributed agent orchestration system — which it managed to do in just one year. Dogan said her own team at Google had spent one year building a similar system.
Humans vs AI
In a post shared on the social media platform X, Dogan wrote: “I’m not joking and this isn’t funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned…”
“I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour,” said the San Francisco-based techie.
Dogan said that Claude Code’s result was not perfect, but comparable to what the team at Google built over the course of one year.
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