Bias towards action. Act quickly to learn faster without being careless.
When I'm building products, I try to default to the smallest responsible step that gives me feedback with some guardrails so that mistakes are cheap to fix and have limited blast radius.
That's helped me ship to millions of users. I've seen a lot of people stall out on their ideas and its happened to me too. On side-projects, I would keep refining them long after they were good enough to try out - it just "needs one more feature", "to load one second faster" etc. But it's easier to reason about something once it’s real and people start using it.
The folks I've seen have the most impact often weren't the smartest in the room. They shipped something small, noticed what broke and shipped a better version as soon as possible. Being wrong early was part of how they learned. Meanwhile there were so many people waiting for certainty that just continued waiting and didn’t ship.
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Cloud sessions for Claude Code are now GA! Start a task, close your laptop and it keeps going.
Get a one-time $100 credit on Pro or $250 on Max to celebrate. Your sessions spend it before falling back to normal plan use. Claim it:
Many of you have already been using cloud sessions and we hope you'll enjoy the extra credit.
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Cloud sessions are officially available and out of research preview! They let you keep Claude Code working, even when your laptop is closed.
Existing subscribers get a one-time credit to try them: $100 on Pro, $250 on Max.
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Claude Opus 5.5 drew each frame of this animation in JavaScript. Here's "how browsers work" in 40 seconds.
We made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks.
Here’s how we use Claude to measure, debug and improve performance. Prompts and methods included.
AI lets you try more ideas than you'll ever ship. Each one can teach you something. Combine what you learn and that's what ships. Ideally something of value to users.
the right way to use model capabilities is not to ship 10x more features to prod
it's to spend more time understanding your users, trying experiments, building prototypes, learning about things you don't understand so that you can ship things that actually work
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Opus 5.5 is my new daily driver.
Fable-level on most work, cheaper and faster than Opus 5 and Pro/Max/Team users just got a banked reset! Demo:
Switching effort mid-session on Opus 5.5 doesn't break your prompt cache btw! Just make sure you're on Claude Code v2.1.280+
Try these in your first Opus 5.5 session:
→ Hand over a whole task. Define "done" and when to check in.
→ Drop "think carefully". It always thinks first.
→ After a long run, check what it needs to go further.
Our playbook:
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One more thing: we’re increasing five-hour usage limits on Pro, Max, and Team plans. We’re also providing subscription users a rate limit reset, which you can save and use whenever you choose.
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5! 40% lower cost than Opus 5 with cache reads 60% cheaper. It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks.
I celebrated with a pelican riding a bike in Three.js.
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Reminder: Claude Code can test if a skill or plugin actually improves Claude's answers.
> claude plugin eval init
Tell Claude what a good result looks like in your plugin's folder and it writes the test cases for you.
> run claude plugin eval .
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"you are in the reputation-building business, and software is actually downstream of that."
Great read if you've started something new and feel pressure to prove yourself. The advice: don't spiral. Be a reliable teammate first & the bigger work will follow.
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new post: the senior engineer death spiral
a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can.
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Claude Code now supports AGENTS.md. We'll fallback to it if CLAUDE.md isn't specified. Hope this helps :)
We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code.
Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md.
You can toggle this behavior in /config.
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Projects are rolling out in Claude Code today.
A Project is an ongoing conversation that coordinates a stream of related work for you. You describe a goal, Claude splits it into threads, runs them in parallel in the cloud and keeps going after you close your laptop.
Starting with select Pro and Max users on cloud sessions.
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Today we're rolling out Projects in Claude Code on desktop and web.
A project is one conversation with Claude. It splits the work into threads itself, runs them as parallel cloud sessions, passes context between them, and keeps going when you leave.
In beta for select users.
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Claude Design, Claude Slides and Claude Docs also work inside Claude Code now.
Ask for a design review deck or a UI mockup and point it at the actual files and RFCs in the repo. Edit it yourself or keep going in the conversation, and share the link when it's ready.
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At Anthropic, Claude now writes 80% of our code. Engineers ship 8x more code per quarter.
Side effect: Tests grew 10x. CI jobs up 25x in 6 months. Here's what helped us scale:
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Get more out of your Fable usage by using Opus for subagents. Great tip!
Setting my subagent model to Opus has helped me save so much usage on Fable 5.1. It really likes to spawn subagents but mine rarely need Fable-level reasoning
`CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL=opus`
we heard feedback that it's hard to know if your skills are still working with new model releases
plugin evals are here to help
run `claude plugin eval init` in your plugin folder
How I do code reviews these days: more code = more selective human review i.e. don't read all the code.
1. Every PR gets a multi-agent first pass. It should find bugs, verify them, rank by severity, suggest fixes. Approval stays a human call on anything that matters.
2. Low blast radius changes on less sensitive code (there's often a lot!) can skip a deep human review once that review is clean. This helps keep the explosion of PRs manageable.
3. Core / sensitive paths still need an owner and human sign-off. That's where you spend time: verification, constraints and earning trust in what the agents can safely cover. You want to keep recoverability.
Agents do the first pass and humans cover blast radius.
Great question from
@GergelyOrosz!
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new toggle in Claude Code desktop 👀 you can now keep your computer awake for a single session, including waits between turns!