Code with Claude: The 5 biggest updates explained

Code with Claude: The 5 biggest updates explained

From How I AI by Claire Vo

May 7, 2026 · 12 min

About this episode

Claire discusses the major updates from Anthropic's 'Code with Claude' event and their implications for AI product builders.

Claire breaks down the biggest announcements from Anthropic’s “Code with Claude” event and what they actually mean for builders shipping AI products today. From scheduled AI routines to outcome-based agents, multi-agent orchestration, and new memory systems, Claire walks through the features she’s most excited to use immediately—and how they could reshape the future of agentic software. What you’ll learn: How Claude Code routines let you automate recurring workflows on schedules or webhooks What “Outcomes” are and how rubric-based agent grading works How multi-agent orchestration enables specialized AI teams with different roles and tools Why Anthropic’s new “Dreams” memory system matters for long-term agent behavior Why increased Claude Code usage limits are a bigger deal than they sound How Claire thinks about building practical agentic products today — Resources: • Code with Claude: https://claude.com/code-with-claude • Claude Code Routines Docs: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/routines • Define Outcomes Docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/define-outcomes • Dreams Docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/dreams • Multi-Agent Docs…

People in this episode

Host: Claire Vo

Topics covered

  • AI product development
  • Claude Code updates
  • automation in AI
  • multi-agent systems
  • agentic software

Keywords

  • Claude Code
  • AI routines
  • outcome-based agents
  • multi-agent orchestration
  • memory systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub

Products: Claude Code, Claude, Claude Code Routines, Dreams, Codex

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