Inside Anthropic’s Bet on Claude Agents that Work While You Sleep | Jess Yan

<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Jess and I talked about:</p><p><br></p><p>(00:00) AI agents that work while you sleep</p><p>(03:46) Claude Managed Agents help for long-running tasks</p><p>(05:22) Demo: Building a Claude analyst agent from scratch</p><p>(09:28) Traces: How to see where an agent got stuck</p><p>(15:08) Evals: How agents grade their own work</p><p>(20:16) 5 ways in which Anthropic PMs use agents internally</p><p>(28:06) Processing a 4,000-company waitlist with agents</p><p>(32:47) To build your first agent, focus on helping one person</p><p>(36:47) What changes when agents can work overnight</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks to our sponsors:</p><p>Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams https://linear.app/behind-the-craft</p><p>Wispr Flow: 4x faster than typing with your voice https://ref.wisprflow.ai/peteryang</p><p>Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video https://creators.riverside.com/PeterYang</p><p><br></p><p>📌 Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/inside-anthropics-bet-on-claude-agents-jess-yan</p><p><br></p><p>📌 Get my personal AI operating system with all my skills and prompts: https://www.behindthecraft.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Where to find Jess:</p><p>X: https://x.com/jess__yan</p><p>Website: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/overviewSubscribe to this channel - more interviews coming soon!</p>