Inside Anthropic’s Bet on Claude Agents that Work While You Sleep | Jess Yan

Inside Anthropic’s Bet on Claude Agents that Work While You Sleep | Jess Yan

Author: Peter Yang June 28, 2026 Duration: 42:12

As product lead at Anthropic, Jess has a first-hand look at how Anthropic teams are moving from prompting AI to building long-running agents that work overnight. In our episode, Jess showed me how to build a Claude analytics agent from scratch, then covered how Anthropic PMs use agents internally to understand the codebase, monitor customer feedback, and make better product decisions.


Jess and I talked about:


(00:00) AI agents that work while you sleep

(03:46) Claude Managed Agents help for long-running tasks

(05:22) Demo: Building a Claude analyst agent from scratch

(09:28) Traces: How to see where an agent got stuck

(15:08) Evals: How agents grade their own work

(20:16) 5 ways in which Anthropic PMs use agents internally

(28:06) Processing a 4,000-company waitlist with agents

(32:47) To build your first agent, focus on helping one person

(36:47) What changes when agents can work overnight


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