Fiona Fung, who leads Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, explains how her engineers now ship 8x more code per quarter and what that means for managing teams.
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Engineers should start as ICs before managing to build rapport and product understanding. Managers must continue shipping code part-time to stay connected to the work.
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Verification is the new bottleneck. Teams need automated quality checks, proactive monitoring, and frameworks that define what good looks like for Claude to validate against.
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High agency requires high accountability. Engineers need freedom to build autonomously but must articulate hypotheses and measure outcomes, not just activity or token usage.
"Everything is now possible in theory. Now it's about how ambitious can you be?" - Fiona Fung