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
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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