Anthropic holds Code with Claude 2026 with a record number of developers

On May 6, Anthropic held the second Code with Claude conference in San Francisco. Demand was higher than expected, and the organizers had to expand the event into a large hall.

How the event unfolded

After the success of the first conference, Anthropic decided to scale up the format. The second Code with Claude drew so many developers that the organizers had to move the event to SVN West, a former car dealership, instead of the originally chosen venue. This points to growing interest in Claude and its capabilities among professional engineers. The surge in demand reflects the IT community's increasing attention to Anthropic's tools as an important part of modern development.

Global expansion

Anthropic is not stopping there and continues to widen the geography of its events. After the San Francisco success, the company has scheduled conferences in major tech hubs:

• London — May 19, 2026
• Tokyo — June 10, 2026

This approach is strategically important for Anthropic. It lets developers in different time zones access the content and meet company representatives without an expensive trip to the US. The global expansion of the event signals Anthropic's plans to extend its influence in the European and Asia-Pacific development markets.

Video recordings are available now

The full recording of the conference (more than 5 hours of video) has already been published and is available to watch. Anthropic promises to post individual talks on the Claude Code YouTube channel soon, so developers can pick the sessions they care about without having to watch the whole multi-hour recording. This matters for busy engineers who want to find relevant content quickly.

"Demand for the conference exceeded expectations, so we expanded the

global events calendar."

What this means

Code with Claude is becoming an annual event that sets trends in the ecosystem of AI development tools. Growing interest from developers worldwide and the global expansion of the events suggest that Claude is taking firm root in professional engineers' workflows. AI assistants are ceasing to be an experiment and are becoming a standard tool in professional development.