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