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In The Loop · Thursday · 13 min

The 5 things you can copy from how the fastest growing company in the world: Anthropic.

Anthropic went from about a billion dollars in revenue to about forty-seven billion in a bit over a year, roughly doubling every six weeks. In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through how the fastest-growing company in history actually builds software, and pulling out five things you can learn from how they build products & their teams. ⏭️ Episode highlights (03:00) – One job title, teams of two engineers (05:30) – The five archetypes with no job titles (07:45) – Building hundreds of versions before deciding (09:30) – 15% building, 85% checking (11:15) – Build a check, not just instructions (13:00) – Never let the AI mark its own homework (15:00) – The agent that tried to push to production 🔗 Links & resources Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer, "How building software is changing at Anthropic" - https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-anthropic Anthropic, "Running an AI-native engineering org" - https://claude.com/blog/running-an-ai-native-engineering-org

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Anthropic went from about a billion dollars in revenue to about forty-seven billion in a bit over a year, roughly doubling every six weeks.


In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through how the fastest-growing company in history actually builds software, and pulling out five things you can learn from how they build products & their teams.


⏭️ Episode highlights

(03:00) – One job title, teams of two engineers


(05:30) – The five archetypes with no job titles


(07:45) – Building hundreds of versions before deciding


(09:30) – 15% building, 85% checking


(11:15) – Build a check, not just instructions


(13:00) – Never let the AI mark its own homework


(15:00) – The agent that tried to push to production


🔗 Links & resources

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