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Technical Specialist for Claude Code @anthropic Former: FDE @Salesforce, Product @casper, Founder @FamiliarStudio

Berkeley, CA
Joined April 2007
I want more Americans, not less. I want more trade, not less.
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Claude Duet is not just another personal agent. I use it for almost all of my work these days and I've never felt more in control of my work.
some of what we've been designing in Claude Duet... a few big ideas, and some tiny details can't wait to see what you make with it join the waitlist: claude.com/product/claude-du…
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Your PR looks fine. Does it? Run /code-review --fix in Claude Code before you merge. Claude reads the diff line by line, flags real bugs (here: a retry that refunds customers twice), then fixes them. Claude Code tip #3
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Ohio Republicans are splitting over one attack ad. Ramaswamy's $4M spot has Amy Acton's estranged mother calling her a liar. DeWine: take it down. Trump: keep it running. Ohio votes Nov 3. Animated by Claude, sources in the final frame.
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Keith Mancuso retweeted
Caring a lot about harnesses rn feels similar to caring about tabs vs spaces
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Giving Claude ways to verify it’s own work is essential to building with AI.
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France's weekend from hell: 500,000+ marched, then riots. 2,500+ detained, ~1,000 police hurt, ~3,000 shops damaged. Now Paris and Lyon have night curfews. Claude explains it in under 20 seconds 👇 claude.ai/artifact/DVV84goL1…
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We at Anthropic went from ~2,500 merged changes a day in May to 30,000+ in September. Git couldn't keep up, so a team of seven built Scion, our own source control, in five months. Opus 5.5 help me turn this article into an interactive explainer! claude.ai/artifact/NE4D83pb3…
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Keith Mancuso retweeted
We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit. It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion. In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding. In the post below, we share more details about our new fund. anthropic.com/news/public-be…
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Keith Mancuso retweeted
If you're on API billing, you can set Haiku 5.5's autocompact window to 100K so you stay in the cheaper token pricing tier! It's saved per model so this only applies to Haiku (incl. subagents) > /model haiku > /autocompact 100k
Replying to @ClaudeDevs
For prompts under 100K tokens, it's $0.10 / $0.50 per million tokens with cache reads at $0.01. Above 100K tokens, $0.50 / $2.50 per million, with cache reads at $0.05.
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I knew Opus could do better than this so I just asked Ok like this but feels very slow. Can you make the most engaging animation you can come up with for this and tell the story in under 90 seconds? Wild to me that this isnt a video model, it's all built with code!
Opus 5.5 is really good at making explainer animations "explain the story @pablofindsout uncovered about Kwahi Leonard in a 2d animation with a voice over."
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Opus 5.5 is really good at making explainer animations "explain the story @pablofindsout uncovered about Kwahi Leonard in a 2d animation with a voice over."
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Real engineers do all their work in slack.
I used Opus 5.5 to formally verify the Claude Agent SDK using Lean. A couple short prompts = 16 PRs fixing various bugs and race conditions. Video attached. TLA+ also works well. I sometimes combine Lean and TLA+ to look for issues around data flow, concurrency, and state mgmt. I don't know either language well, but Claude is excellent at both. This approach is super useful for formally modeling your code and finding bugs that a human probably wouldn't have spotted. Is formal verification the future of coding (or at least, bug finding)?
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Gonna have this certified banger in my head for the next ~50 days 🎵🔊
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Claude Code on Desktop just keeps getting better!
You can pop out any pane in the Claude Code desktop app into its own window. Drag the diff or terminal to a second screen while Claude keeps working in the main window, then dock it back whenever you want. You can also run sessions side-by-side or stacked.
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Huge news! Congrats @adamwathan Tailwind was life-changing for web development, and I’m so glad it found a long-term home.
Big one today — Tailwind is joining Shopify 🛍️
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Trump acknowledges 1) oil prices are high, 2) it's because of the war with Iran, 3) the war has not ended, 4) the US has not won, yet.
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I personally think trading is good.
Trump: We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries.. We lose with Mexico $195 billion a year. They have nothing that we have to have, I mean. Hot tamales, tomatoes, a couple of things
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While the US trade deficit with Mexico was $197B in 2025, Mexico's top exports to the US are vehicles, machinery, and medical devices, not just agricultural goods ustr.gov/countries-regi… Additionally, Hot Tamales candy is made in Pennsylvania, US en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Tamal…
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We've just reset weekly limits for everyone on a Claude Max plan. With Fable 5.1 out and a long weekend ahead for many of you, we wanted to keep you building. I'd love to see what you build!
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Models need so so much less scaffolding than ever before. This skill is one of the best ways I’ve found to get your costs under control.
i recently added this command to the claude-api skill. run it in Claude Code to fix common prompting "anti-patterns" that can hobble frontier models: /claude-api prompt-audit patterns include: 1/Verification rituals. Instructions like "double-check your work” or "verify twice before responding” are often taken literally by frontier models and can waste tokens. 2/ Thoroughness and emphasis boosters. "Be maximally thorough," "CRITICAL: YOU MUST ALWAYS…" can lead to verbosity and extra tool calls when working with frontier models. 3/ Mandatory procedures and scratchpad scaffolds. Fixed step processes (e.g., "think step by step in a scratchpad") or reasoning templates are rituals that frontier models don't need. This scaffolding can stack on top of native reasoning and use unnecessary tokens. 4/ Stale examples. Few-shot examples tuned to an older model's failure modes can teach a frontier model to imitate long reasoning chains on requests that don't need them. 5/ Contradictory rules. Frontier models are better at instruction following. Contradictory instructions ("always refund within policy" vs. "never issue refunds without escalation") can be followed more literally by frontier models, resulting in degraded performance. 6/ Dated configuration. Settings written for an older Claude generation (e.g., manual thinking budgets) can be rejected by the Claude Platform with newer models. these patterns accumulate in prompts over time, and can quietly degrade performance when upgrading to newer models. a common reason is the frontier models are better at instruction following, so these anti-patterns steer them to spend unnecessary tokens. example: i tested a migration from Opus 4.8 to Opus 5 on an internal customer support benchmark. with Opus 5 (and other frontier models like Fable 5.1), verification rituals ("verify twice") use unnecessary tokens by duplicating work. emphasis boosters ("be maximally thorough") become dozens of unneeded searches. applying prompt audits can improve performance and reduce cost (as shown in example attached and will be sharing a full write-up soon). also, the skill is also open source and some of this guidance likely applies generally across frontier models github.com/anthropics/skills… nitter.gq/petergyang/status/2094…
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