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Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

aired Jul 26, 2026 · 93.0m
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Summary

In 2023, when I started, nobody said Anthropic and Claude and coding in the same sentence.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, it's, including: I want to go back to the beginning of Anthropic.

Key takeaways
  1. 01At the time, I saw people were starting to use these models not just for code autocomplete, but actually writing long-form code
  2. 02What was magical about Opus 4.5 is we also now not just had a model, but a vehicle, a great product experience like Cloud Code
  3. 03For my team, the way to drive user value is to figure out the right user feedback, The evals, we actually have a saying on the team of evals are the new PRDs
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