Week of May 11
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Practical Claude Code Tips
Boris Cherny (Anthropic) · May 17
Practical, no-history-no-theory walkthrough: terminal setup, codebase Q&A as the onboarding wedge, memory files, the Claude Code SDK in CI, "don't index, ask Git."
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How We Build Effective Agents
Barry Zhang (Anthropic) · May 17
Direct read-across to ADR-001 and the Cortex agent layer. The talk to send anyone "thinking about agents."
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Skills: The Application Layer
Barry Zhang & Mahesh Murag (Anthropic) · May 17
"We stopped building agents and started building Skills." The clearest framing of Skills as the software layer of the agent stack.
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Software 3.0
Andrej Karpathy (interviewed by Stephanie Zhan) · May 17
The Software 3.0 framing: 1.0 = explicit code, 2.0 = learned weights, 3.0 = prompted models. Karpathy on why teams should change behavior the day they believe it.
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Claude on Vertex AI with the ADK
Ivan Nardini (Google Cloud) · May 17
Walkthrough of Google Cloud's agent stack as competitor/complement to Anthropic-native + Vercel AI SDK setups.
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Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever
Matt Pocock · May 13
In the AI age, fundamentals (DDD, encapsulation, type safety) compound the value of AI tooling. Short, sharp, quotable.
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Full Walkthrough: Workflow for AI Coding
Matt Pocock · May 13
Pocock's consolidated AI-coding workflow built around skills (structured prompts with categories, validation checkpoints, bundled resources).