Inside Anthropic’s Bet on Claude Agents that Work While You Sleep | Jess Yan
About this episode
Jess Yan discusses Anthropic's development of AI agents that operate overnight and their applications in product management.
As product lead at Anthropic, Jess has a first-hand look at how Anthropic teams are moving from prompting AI to building long-running agents that work overnight. In our episode, Jess showed me how to build a Claude analytics agent from scratch, then covered how Anthropic PMs use agents internally to understand the codebase, monitor customer feedback, and make better product decisions. Jess and I talked about: (00:00) AI agents that work while you sleep (03:46) Claude Managed Agents help for long-running tasks (05:22) Demo: Building a Claude analyst agent from scratch (09:28) Traces: How to see where an agent got stuck (15:08) Evals: How agents grade their own work (20:16) 5 ways in which Anthropic PMs use agents internally (28:06) Processing a 4,000-company waitlist with agents (32:47) To build your first agent, focus on helping one person (36:47) What changes when agents can work overnight Thanks to our sponsors: Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams https://linear.app/behind-the-craft Wispr Flow: 4x faster than typing with your voice https://ref.wisprflow.ai/peteryang Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video https://creators.riverside.com/PeterYang 📌 Get…
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