Accelerate feature development across engineering teams

DraftTechnology and ecommerceJapan

Rakuten engineers use Claude Code for tests, components, bug fixes and documentation. Rakuten reports average feature delivery falling from 24 working days to five. A separate seven-hour vLLM implementation reached 99.9% numerical agreement with its reference, rather than general code correctness.

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For whom

Developers at medium and large companies; strong testing and code-review skills.

Not for

Not suitable for treating numerical agreement in one task as universal code accuracy.

Brain Score

7/10 brain cells
Impact
2/2
Evidence
1/2
Reproducibility
1/2
Maturity
2/2
Reach
1/2

Five values from 0 to 2. The total has a minimum of 1. A reading aid based on the source, not an independently measured performance result. How the score works

Original source

Rakuten accelerates development with Claude Code 
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Vendor
Published
Data as of
2026-10-31

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