In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy 
About Katelyn Lesse
Katelyn Lesse is Head of Platform Engineering at Anthropic, leading the teams that turn Claude into APIs, developer tools and infrastructure for autonomous software, including Claude Managed Agents. Before Anthropic, she led Connect engineering at Stripe, overseeing Stripe Accounts v2, and was a senior engineering director at Betterment, running Betterment for Business engineering before leading cash-management engineering. Lesse treats agent infrastructure as a distributed-systems problem, emphasising durable sessions, secure execution and credential boundaries, and argues product managers become more valuable, not less, as engineers ship faster with AI. On In The Blink Of AI, she discussed using AI at its exponential.
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Key moments from Learn how to use AI at its exponential with Anthropic's Head of Platform Engineering.
- 2:53AI Hack: Using Claude to Pick Wine
- 3:42Katelyn's Background and Path to Anthropic
- 5:32Why She Left Stripe to Join Anthropic
- 11:22What Building on the Exponential Means
- 11:48Why Australia Is a Top AI Market
- 13:05Is the Claude Obsession Healthy?
- 15:20The Framework for Building AI Products
- 16:38Why Evals Are Non-Negotiable
- 18:18Inside Anthropic's Developer Platform
- 20:11What Is Harness Engineering?
The path so far.
- Now
Head of Engineering, Claude Platform · Anthropic
- Earlier · Scale-up
Led Connect engineering · Stripe
- Earlier · Scale-up
Led product/cash-management engineering · Betterment
Sources: katelynlesse.com
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