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Anthropic rewrote the Messages API from Python to Rust using Claude
On the Latent Space podcast, Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang described how the company rebuilt the Messages API, previously in Python, in Rust, with Claude writing most of the code and tests with real traffic in shadow mode before the switch. According to the account, which spread on X this weekend, CPU usage fell 40% to 50% and time to first token dropped 10% to 20%; the switch was completed in September.
Published in edition no. 3 of Noticiário do Joãozinho ·
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https://latent.space/p/how_anthropic_ships_the_1_llm_in_the_world_safely_separating_the_brain_from_the_hands/