A senior Google engineer reported that Anthropic's Claude Code generated a distributed agent orchestration system in one hour, a task her team at Google took a year to complete. While acknowledging the AI's output wasn't perfect, she noted its comparability to her team's year-long effort. The engineer clarified that the underlying concepts are not new, but AI tools now rapidly prototype them. She emphasized that the true challenge remains in long-term product development and integration, not just initial coding.