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Thariq Shihipar (@trq212) is an engineer on Anthropic’s Claude Code team I asked him how Anthropic makes the most out of the models for engi…
Thariq Shihipar (@trq212) 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. In this episo
Thariq Shihipar (@trq212) 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. In this episode: • Internal best practices in leveraging the models • What percent of Anthropic's work is fully autonomous • How Anthropic maintains higher volumes of code • What has worked in preventing AI-written breakages Where to watch: • YouTube - https://youtu.be/2Kch3tWMnw8 • Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5dT5nBPv2JXPKz14M5zlE1?si=sQsWgOiZS1SzsEjWRJ0ruA • Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835 • Transcript - https://www.developing.dev/p/how-anthropic-builds-and-how-engineering Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at https://workos.com/ Chapters: 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 Media
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- We’ve been putting a lot of effort into making Claude Code more responsive & reliable. Here’s an update on everything we’ve done:
- A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team
- Full docs are here: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fullscreen
Source: Thariq (X) | 2026-09-07