Code Review Replaces Simplify, Plus Anthropic's First Profitable Quarter

The simplify command becomes code-review with effort levels and inline PR comments. Usage now itemizes consumption by skills, subagents, plugins, and MCP servers. And Anthropic is reportedly tracking toward its first profitable quarter on roughly eleven billion dollars in Q2 revenue. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:46) Under the Hood (03:54) In the News Further reading: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (Anthropic Engineering) New in Claude Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels (Anthropic Engineering) Anthropic on Pace for First Profitable Quarter as Revenue Surges (Bloomberg) SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers (Wired) Andrej Karpathy, Tesla Alum and OpenAI Co-Founder, Joins Anthropic (Wall Street Journal) Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare (TechCrunch) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.