Before joining Anthropic, Thariq spent about two weeks building a side project with Opus 4 using the Agent SDK. That version needed a constantly running process and did not work well. A single prompt to Opus 5.5 ported it to Claude Managed Agents, which he says made it considerably more reliable.
before I joined Anthropic, I spent about 2 weeks hacking on this as a side project with Opus 4. It used the Agent SDK so it needed a constantly running process & didnt work that well
but one prompt to Opus 5.5 ported it to Claude Managed Agents & made it way more reliable
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