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Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll

``` Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll · Jan 2 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. > > 5:27 AM · Jan 3, 2026 · 3.8M Views ```
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A Google engineer's tweet noting Claude Code replicated a year of internal distributed-agent-orchestrator engineering work in about an hour when given a problem description. Relevant to Nathan's interest in tracking AI R&D automation / capability uplift (echoes METR self-reported-productivity tracking in project memory) as a concrete anecdotal data point. A Google Principal Engineer's viral tweet (and her own follow-up clarifying context) reporting that Claude Code reproduced in an hour what her team spent a year building for distributed agent orchestration — cited by others as evidence for Dario Amodei's predictions about AI automating coding work. Relevant to Nathan's interest in AI capability trajectories and automation of software engineering.

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