
How Anthropic ships the #1 LLM in the World safely: Separating the Brain from the Hands
Latent Space episode with Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang on the engineering behind the Claude Platform. Topics include the Claude Opus 5.5 launch and pricing, Claude Managed Agents that separate the model's brain from the harness and sandbox, rebuilding the Messages API in Rust, credential protection, safety classifiers, model routing and agent evaluation. The page lists show notes and timestamps only, with no transcript.
TL;DR Podcast with two Anthropic engineers on Claude Platform design, managed agents, Opus 5.5 launch and API scaling.
Organisations named here
- Anthropic
- Latent Space
- Angela Jiang
- Katelyn Lesse
Technologies named here
- Claude Platform
- Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude Managed Agents
- Messages API
- Claude
- Rust
Techniques named here
- Separating the brain from the hands
- Distillation and preserved thinking
- Harnesses for long-running agents
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