Anthropic Goes Full Platform: Project Epitaxy and a Vibe-Coding App Studio to Rival Lovable and Replit
Two separate Anthropic leak stories broke on April 13, and they’re best understood as a single strategic move: Anthropic is building a full-stack AI coding platform. Not just a better chat interface. Not just a stronger model. A vertically integrated development environment spanning code generation, multi-agent orchestration, and application deployment. Project Epitaxy: Claude Code Gets a Power-User Overhaul Anthropic has been internally testing a major Claude Code desktop redesign under the codename “Epitaxy.” The project first surfaced in late March alongside the broader Claude Code source code leak, but new details reported by TestingCatalog — corroborated by timesofai.com and HandyAI newsletter — paint a picture of something more complete than early experimental screenshots suggested. ...