Jarred Sumner Says Next Claude Code Starts 20% Faster

Jarred Sumner, who works on Claude Code at Anthropic, tweeted that the next version starts 20% faster. He shared a photo of a benchmark slide showing time to input box dropping from 397 ms to 318 ms between version 2.1.250 and the upcoming release. The post presents the change as a first-party announcement about upcoming performance work on the tool.