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Inside Claude Code From the Engineers Who Built It

AI & I

2025/10/29
AI & I

AI & I

2025/10/29

Shownote

At Every, the team credits Claude Code with transforming the way they work. They now ship to codebases they barely know, each new feature makes the next easier to build, and even non-technical teammates confidently use the terminal. To explore how this h...

Highlights

In this deep-dive conversation, the creators of Claude Code from Anthropic AI share firsthand insights into how their tool is reshaping developer workflows through natural language interaction and intelligent automation.
02:33
The magic moment was with Claude 4, realizing the tool's usefulness
07:03
Over 70-80% of technical employees use Claude Code daily, driving rapid feedback and feature innovation.
14:06
/PR commit enables secure, permission-based commits with embedded bash commands
21:14
Researchers use the agent harness to conduct evals and give models hard tasks to measure improvements
21:54
Multiple sub-agents can collaborate to improve accuracy in code reviews by dividing responsibilities and checking each other's work.
31:41
Most tests and lint rules are written by Claude Code, and bad ones aren't committed.
34:20
Latent demand emerges when users hack the product in unexpected ways, revealing what they truly need.
44:53
Deterministic outcomes are achievable with scaffolding despite stochastic behavior.
1:01:54
Productivity per engineer has increased by nearly 70%

Chapters

Start
00:00
Introduction
01:26
Claude Code’s origin story
02:25
How Anthropic dogfoods Claude Code
07:03
Boris and Cat’s favorite slash commands
14:06
How Boris uses Claude Code to plan feature development
15:49
Everything Anthropic has learned about using sub-agents well
21:53
Use Claude Code to turn past code into leverage
26:16
The product decisions for building an agent that’s simple and powerful
33:14
Making Claude Code accessible to the non-technical user
36:38
The next form factor for coding with AI
45:12

Transcript

Cat Wu: what made it work really well is that Claude Code has access to everything that an engineer does at the terminal. Everything you can do, Claude Code can do. There's nothing in between. Dan Shipper: There's actually an increasing number of people i...