How Instagram’s Cofounder-Turned-Anthropic Product Chief Is Cracking The Enterprise AI Code

ByRichard Nieva,

Forbes Staff.

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hen Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga noticed earlier this year that much of his engineering force was using Anthropic’s Claude to do their coding, he decided to see what the fuss was about. “I'm not coding every day — they are,” he told Forbes. “I went home and tried it myself over the weekend.”

After using it, Naga saw how the language model could help with fixing bugs or carrying out mundane tasks, like migrating code from one environment to another. That convinced him to extend Uber’s Claude usage beyond an initial pilot, and it didn’t stop there. The ride-hailing giant began to build its own coding tools using Claude’s APIs, or plugging into the language model to become the AI brains behind some of its internal services (though the company won’t disclose how much it spends with Anthropic). All told, Uber claims its use of Claude has saved its engineers a whopping 200 years of developer work — an internal estimate to track efficiency gains from generative AI tools.