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Anthony Morris, the lead creator of Claude Code Desktop, announced that he is leaving Anthropic. Related reports say that he and Thariq Shihipar, who was responsible for the CLI ecosystem, left around the same day; Anthony said he was not fired, and that future desktop feedback can be directed to his partner Alice Zhao and former Microsoft VS Code veteran Benjamin Pasero. Earlier, Arfur Grok posted that Anthony Morris had left Anthropic, and Peter Yang reposted it, saying he initially found it hard to believe and that it is a huge loss for Claude users, because Anthony and Thariq are the two people best at listening to user feedback. Currently, public information is concentrated on the departure news itself and the above responses, with no official statement yet.
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Oct 25
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Anthony Morris, creator of Claude Code desktop edition, officially announces departure from Anthropic
Anthony Morris, creator of the Claude Code desktop edition, has officially announced his departure from Anthropic, leaving around the same day as Thariq Shihipar, who was responsible for the CLI ecosystem. The desktop edition officially integrated Claude Code in December 2025, supporting parallel multi-session work and letting Claude make edits after users select elements or draw circle annotations in the browser panel; the time to create a new session dropped from 837 milliseconds to 347 milliseconds. Anthony said he was not fired, and that future desktop edition feedback can be directed to his partner Alice Zhao and former Microsoft VS Code veteran Benjamin Pasero.
Oct 24
Peter Yang
Peter Yang laments Anthony Morris leaving Anthropic
Arfur Grok posted that Anthony Morris (@amorriscode) has left Anthropic. Peter Yang reposted, saying he initially found it hard to believe, and called it a huge loss for Claude users, because Anthony and Thariq are the two people best at listening to user feedback.
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