Angela Jiang

If you're perfectly qualified to do something, you've already outgrown it

Within 6 to 12 months, every software product will need an API, MCP, and CLI. More and more, people expect to be able to interact with your product through automation, AI and agents. Historically, platform was a later stage of maturity play. Going forward, you won't really thrive in this new world without a platform.

@simpsoka Agree

I don't know why this is a hot take, but good PMs are gap fillers. bad PMs try to "define what PMs do." good PMs "just do."

Standing room only at Code with Claude London as builders learn how to make their first Claude Managed Agent!

Claude’s connectivity is getting a boost. Welcome @StainlessAPI!

@draecomino Congrats on the ipo!

This was my first day at Cerebras in March 2023. There was no Claude Code, no agents, no fast inference. We were just getting started on AI training. I didn't know if we were going to make it.

Krishna on how Anthropic thinks about the platform vs. application layer, and when they decide to build their own products like Claude Code. It’s the question every investor and founder is thinking about: “Most of what we're building is platform. There's so many examples of where a platform can accrue a lot of value, but the customers who are building on that platform actually accrue even more value. We will build our own applications on that same platform where a couple of things are true. Number one, if we feel like we have a vision into where the models are going and we can demonstrate that and create customer value in that, that might be something like Claude Code. The second is thinking about ways to demonstrate value for the ecosystem that others might emulate. If you think about Claude for financial services or Claude for life sciences, these are ways in which we've composed the platform. We're building on the same platform as our customers. That creates a level playing field. We also think that there's so much value that's going to accrue in these areas that our customers can win and we can win as well. So I think of our strategy as mostly horizontal. A lot of the value is going to accrue to the customers that are building on top of it. Our goal is build the best models and then build the products and tools and services that allow that intelligence to proliferate within customers."

The native Claude Platform is on AWS. - Build a self learning managed agent - Retire your committed spend - Profit!

@hnshah Very aggressively so

AI accelerates the first mover’s disadvantage.

In the future, you’ll be able to accomplish a goal by just giving Claude an outcome and a budget. That’s the direction Anthropic is building in with its new Managed Agents features, announced at this week’s Code with Claude developer event. The basic idea: Claude, wrapped in a computer in the cloud, that you can spin up, scale, and manage as needed. Anthropic is taking on the infrastructure that kills most agent products, and making sure that it scales to meet the needs of agents running 24/7. On this week’s AI & I from @every, I talk with Angela Jiang (@angjiang), head of product for the Claude platform, and Katelyn Lesse (@katelyn_lesse), head of engineering for the Claude platform, about what Anthropic is building and what it takes to make agents reliable in production. We get into: - Why the "build a generic harness, hot-swap any model behind it" playbook is already outdated. Angela points to eval data on Memory where the same task across different harnesses performed drastically differently. - The infrastructure wall every team hits in production—and why Katelyn thinks “my sandbox died and took the agent with it” is the real reason internal agents don't ship. - Why Anthropic is so bullish on using file systems and skills within Claude, including Angela's argument that those early design choices can compound for years. This is a must-watch for anyone trying to take an agent past the demo and into production. Watch below! Timestamps: How the Claude platform evolved from API to agents: 00:01:48 The primitives that make up Claude Managed Agents: 00:04:09 Why the harness and the model are becoming a single unit: 00:10:37 The infrastructure wall that kills most agent projects in production: 00:18:49 Why team agents need a different shape than individual productivity tools: 00:24:49 How Anthropic's legal team uses an agent to review marketing copy: 00:26:36 Using multi-agent orchestration for advisor strategies, adversarial pairs, and swarms: 00:34:24 How to measure agent success with outcome and budget as the end state: 00:35:50 What the platform looks like a year from now, when Claude writes its own harness: 00:39:11

@mattpocockuk AI scales jargon

AI is making me obsessed with language Taking abstract business processes and naming them is INSANELY powerful for aligning AI with how you work I don't scan X for inspiration for course material/socials I capture notes (either as hooks and bricks) from the X channel This brevity makes communicating with AI so much faster, and helps you think more clearly

@lexxbarn Yes.

I’m technically not technical but with Claude I’m technically technical

Live from Code with Claude: we're launching dreaming in Claude Managed Agents as a research preview. Outcomes, multiagent orchestration, and webhooks are now in public beta.

A cloud-based fleet of financial managed agents is at your finger tips with a simple YAML file github.com/anthropics/fin…

@andruyeung bullish on this future

Overheard at a dinner with tech CEOs the other night: The top 1% of customer success and sales people at their companies are becoming hybrid "forward-deployed product managers" They're not just managing relationships and relaying requests to product and engineering, but building features themselves. They don't need t wait for engineering, product or design. They can ship exactly what the customer wants, instantly. This is becoming prevalent at early-stage startups. Roles as we know them are going to look completely different in a few years.

@ethanhlo @ClaudeDevs Looking into it. Totally makes sense

@angjiang @ClaudeDevs I got a request - can you allow us to download Skills from the platform console? Right now we can only upload them, so if you lose track which one is uploaded, you're out of luck.

@chrislakin Tried it for a month. Was too soul crushing to continue and I reverted.

@angjiang did you follow it or ignore it

There’s a category of advice called fake leverage. The worst one of this category I ever got was to stop executing and to scale myself through sheer management.

@johnpalmer and you need to make this decision every day

when you join a big company you have to decide pretty quickly if you’re going to cross the event horizon and be sucked into NPC mode, or if you want to fight incredibly hard to remain a live player

I recently had a chance to reflect on how the product role has evolved along the AI exponential. Here's a look into my experience building Claude Managed Agents, plus practical examples of the DIY'ed agents currently unlocking my productivity. claude.com/blog/product-d…

@dani_avila7 Following

OK Cloudflare just took my weekend Going to try something, use Claude Managed Agent with this new Cloudflare + Stripe Projects flow and see how far it actually gets on its own Real end-to-end experiment, no shortcuts I'll post what happens, whether the agent really pulls off everything the blog claims - Create the Cloudflare account - Register the domain - Deploy to production All without me touching the dashboard 🧐