Building the most AI-pilled engineering team in the world | Fiona Fung (Anthropic)

Software engineering has fundamentally shifted as AI tools remove coding bottlenecks, enabling engineers to focus on high-level architecture and product impact. Fiona Fung, who leads the Claude Code and co-work teams at Anthropic, emphasizes that modern engineering requires a builder mindset characterized by high agency and accountability. Rather than manual coding, success now hinges on verification, automated testing, and leveraging AI agents to manage workflows and feedback loops. Leaders must move beyond traditional productivity metrics, instead prioritizing outcomes and maintaining a deep, hands-on connection to the product through dogfooding. As roles blur across disciplines, the most effective teams embrace asynchronous agent-driven routines, prioritize proactive quality detection, and foster a culture of continuous learning to navigate the rapid pace of technological change.