
In The Loop · Thursday · 13 min
The 5 things you can copy from how the fastest growing company in the world: Anthropic.
0:00-13:16
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show notes
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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