How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar

Thariq Shihipar is an engineer on Anthropic’s Claude Code team I asked him how Anthropic makes the most out of the models for engineering and how the industry will change soon.

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• Transcript: developing.dev/p/how-anthropic-builds-and-how-…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro
(00:29) Onboarding at Anthropic
(02:53) Internal capabilities vs external perception
(06:16) Model vs Harness
(08:55) What percent of Anthropics changes are fully autonomous
(14:51) Computer use
(17:42) How to make the most out of your compute
(20:45) Loop engineering
(22:47) Where the industry will go soon
(26:02) Which model do Anthropic engineers use
(27:38) Is learning a particular model worth it
(30:56) Prompting tips for todays models
(35:04) How to get the models to do tasteful work
(39:00) How much of writing is done by AI at Anthropic
(45:36) Code ownership and maintenance at Anthropic
(52:04) How Anthropic prevents breakages
(55:24) Visibility and sharing your work
(58:42) Luck surface area example
(01:00:57) Should people still learn to code
(01:07:42) Advice for his younger self
(01:09:58) Outro

Where to find Thariq:

• X/Twitter: x.com/trq212
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/thariqshihipar
• Personal Website: thariq.io

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Referenced in this episode:

• Anthropic's post on removing 80% of Claude Code's system prompt: claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engin…