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 - • Spotify - • Apple Podcasts - • Transcript - 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 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