Rethinking Claude Code Best Practices (Lydia Hallie, Anthropic)
Lydia Hallie works on the Claude Code team at Anthropic. Her AI Engineer talk (re-recorded at home after the live demo had technical trouble) is a 17-minute audit of the Claude Code advice Anthropic itself published earlier in the year. Her claim is that most of that advice was written for models that stopped early and needed correcting, and that with Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.2 a lot of it now gets in the way....