Creating Claude Code: Agent Design and Product Philosophy

Join the engineers who built Claude Code to explore their counterintuitive decision to ditch the IDE for a terminal-first experience. They reveal how enabling the model to master Bash and other tools created a powerful new agent paradigm that sees everything an engineer does at the terminal. Plus, hear how internal "ant fooding"—used by up to 80% of technical employees—resulted in massive productivity gains, reporting an almost 70% increase in productivity per engineer.