Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. Rahul Patil, who most recently wore the CTO badge at Stripe, is taking over the role from company co-founder Sam McCandlish. As CTO, Patil gets the unenviable job of keeping Anthropic’s infrastructure humming while demand for Claude keeps spiking. Patil, with 20 years in the trenches at Stripe, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft, is being brought in as the infrastructure adult in the room. For his part, Patil sounded downright starry-eyed about the mission: “I can’t think of a greater calling,” he said.