Code with Claude London 2026: A Field Report for Engineering Leaders
What actually mattered at Code with Claude London 2026: the signal, the demos, and what engineering leaders should do on Monday.
The Field Guides
How we think out loud about agentic engineering.
Practical field guides, playbooks and diagnostics for the engineering leaders and teams building in the agentic era. Roughly one a month, plus briefings from the events we attend. No filler, and no pitch: just the thinking we'd want if we were in your seat.
Field guides
Deep references for a specific role moving into the agentic era.
The Engineering Manager's Guide to Agents
Lead a team through agent adoption: how to staff, review and measure when agents write code.
Notify meThe Security Engineer's Field Guide to Agents
Threat-model and harden agentic systems: permissions, guardrails and the failure modes that matter.
Notify meBecome a Harness Engineer
Step into the role that designs the tools, context and guardrails agents actually run inside.
Notify meBecome an Eval Owner
Own the evaluations that decide whether an agent is safe to ship, and keep them honest over time.
Notify meThe Junior-to-Senior Pathway in the Agentic Era
What “senior” means when agents do the typing: the skills that compound rather than commoditise.
Notify meTen Ways Agent Projects Die
The recurring failure patterns that kill agent initiatives before production, and how to spot them early.
Notify mePlaybooks
Actionable patterns and processes you can put to work this quarter.
The Eval Ownership Playbook
Stand up evaluation as a first-class function in your team, step by step.
Notify meHuman-in-the-Loop Patterns
Design patterns for keeping the right human in the loop without bottlenecking your agents.
Notify meThe Agentic Coding Diet
Trim bloated AI-assisted coding habits into a lean, reviewable, trustworthy workflow.
Notify meThe Underwriter's Loop
A pattern for keeping expert reviewers in the loop on high-stakes decisions. Details coming soon.
Notify meDiagnostics
Quick self-checks to baseline where your team really stands.
AI Literacy Diagnostic
Baseline your team's AI fluency and surface the gaps worth closing first.
Notify meTalks & events
Where you can find us. Details to follow.
Sequoia AI Ascent 2026
Details coming soon.
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Roughly one field guide a month, plus briefings from the events we attend, straight to your inbox. Each new guide tackles one hard part of getting agents into production. And when you're ready for a read on your own systems, that's exactly what the Agent Readiness Assessment is for.