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      "text": "And the way we get there is with dynamic workflows. And this is essentially using [Claude] to orchestrate just very large teams of agents to do the most complex work. Like, large … migrations. … Like, we just migrated … from Zig to Rust. And this is like a JavaScript runtime. It's a lot of code.",
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      "text": "But really, for a lot of people, it's actually just really exciting to get to try all these tools to get to experiment. And so I actually see a lot of my role as creating space for people to try stuff out, to feel safe doing it. … And my other job is to just give people context, so to give them business context, product context, so that they can make better decisions.",
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      "text": "what we were realizing is if there's a person that's deciding yes or no every time, at some point, the person actually just stops reading, and they just say yes, yes, yes, because they're tired of pressing yes. … And our security people were also realizing this. And so … the thing that they started working on is, is there a way to route this to a classifier? So the classifier can decide. … It took many months to kind of get this to a mature state. And in the end, through EVALS, through red teaming, through pen testing, we're able to show that this is actually much safer. And so … at Anthropic, we run on Auto Mode, and we recommend this to all our customers, too.",
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