How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar
Show notes
Thariq Shihipar 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.
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Podcast links:
• YouTube: https://youtu.be/2Kch3tWMnw8
• Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835
• Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/how-anthropic-builds-and-how-engineering
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Timestamps:
(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
Where to find Thariq:
• X/Twitter: https://x.com/trq212
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thariqshihipar/
• Personal Website: https://www.thariq.io/
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Referenced in this episode:
• Anthropic's post on removing 80% of Claude Code's system prompt: https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models