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Simon Willison (@simonwillison.net): I interviewed Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at the AI engineer World's Fair a couple of weeks ago - the video is now out, so I've published an annotated transcript of our conve

L4 · DeveloperTools & Products@simonwillison.net· 7/21/2026

Reveals behind-the-scenes engineering practices and tool evolution at Anthropic that developers can apply to their own AI coding workflows.

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This annotated transcript from Simon Willison's fireside chat with Anthropic's Claude Code team reveals internal insights about Claude Code, Claude Tag, and Fable's development. The team discusses their dogfooding approach (called 'ant fooding'), how Claude Tag now handles 65% of engineering PRs internally, and evolving best practices like reducing sizes by 80%. They also cover coding agent security, automated code review adoption, and how newer models like Fable 5 have changed their workflows.

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I interviewed Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at the AI engineer World's Fair a couple of weeks ago - the video is now out, so I've published an annotated transcript of our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/...

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