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Summary
Anthropic's Claude Code autonomously opened 388 maintenance PRs in its applications, of which 180 were approved (46% merge rate). In an internal experiment, Claude Code operated almost unsupervised via Slack (proj-claude-maintains-apps), producing fixes such as crash discoveries, dead code removal,…
Key points
- Understanding Claude Code's real-world autonomous maintenance performance helps in assessing its production suitability.
- These figures provide quantitative evidence of Claude Code's autonomous maintenance capabilities, but a sub-50% merge rate indicates human oversight is still needed.
- Developers can reference this experiment to evaluate the feasibility of delegating maintenance tasks to AI agents while retaining human review mechanisms.
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