Simon Willison publishes Claude Code team interview from AI Engineer World's Fair

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-07-21 12:57

Simon Willison has published an annotated transcript of his interview with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team. The interview took place at the AI Engineer World's Fair. The video of the conversation is now available. AI

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