How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar

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