Anthropic's engineers ship eight times more code than they did a few years ago.
And they had to start scheduling lunches so people would talk to each other.
Fiona Fung, who leads the Claude Code team, said it on Lenny's Podcast last week. Working with agents all day had started to feel isolating. The team was fast, but they'd stopped running into each other. So they added pairwise programming lunches and hackathons — rituals to put back the thing that used to happen on its own.
Eight times the output. Scheduled conversation. That ratio is worth sitting with.
Whatever goes missing here doesn't show up in the metrics. It doesn't throw an error. It just quietly stops being available.
