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      "item": "Anthropic's own Product Engineering team calls Claude Code their \"first stop\" for any task; new data scientists on Infra feed Claude Code their entire codebase so it can find the relevant CLAUDE.md files and explain dependencies.",
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      "source_title": "How Anthropic teams use Claude Code",
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