Do you find the Lydia emails helpful?
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Engineers find the Lydia emails helpful, especially for learning about internal workflows at Anthropic and discovering features like color customization. One engineer noted the utility of an independent verification agent for code reviews, intersecting its findings with traditional code review to focus efforts. The discussion also highlighted that many teams struggle with inconsistent starting defaults, wishing for a reliable baseline to iterate and binary search upon.
I didn't know you could change the colors. And the internal engineers at Anthropic sharing their workflows are really useful.
I am surprised they're not trying to monetize their tips. These save time. I am sure enterprises would gladly pay for a single engineer's full workflows with a/b results showing numeric improvement.
For code review I always wondered if others spawned an independent verification agent. Then run code-review. Then take the intersection of the two to focus on.
Many people doing this professionally struggle with knowing what a decent review should be, reinventing the wheel at every company.
But many engineers are blindly guessing and checking with their teams, when sometimes, the team just wants a good, consistent, starting default. One they can iterate on and binary search through.