🆕This Year In Claude
@simonw chats with
@_catwu and
@trq212 about the state of:
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@claudeai Code
- Claude Fable
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@anthropicai culture & product strategy
- Claude Tag & multiplayer collaboration
- The surprising succcess of Remote control
- HTML artifacts for code review
- Why Anthropic uses Auto Mode as the standard for long-running tasks at Anthropic, not --dangerously-skip-permissions
- using Claude for Video editing
- how to be more ambitious as a developer: refusing to "negotiate against oneself"
Timestamps
0:00 Introductions and Claude Code overview
1:22 How coding agents have changed daily workflows
3:51 Shifting focus: Product sense over manual implementation
5:09 Why modern rewrites are now beneficial
6:37 Introducing Claude Tag and team collaboration
11:38 Prioritization and internal "dog-fooding" culture
13:06 The surprise success of remote control features
14:17 Evolving code review processes and automation
17:16 Building trust in new model generations
19:18 Optimizing for capability and user experience
21:23 Reducing system prompts for frontier models
28:05 The philosophy of tool design
30:57 Safety, security, and using Auto Mode
37:53 The human element and developer ambition
41:50 Surprising use cases for Claude (e.g., video editing)
43:35 Limitations and future design aspirations
45:09 Cultural hacks for productivity
46:42 Absurd, fun projects built with Claude
49:03 Audience Q&A