Field report
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 capability curve: eight frontier models in twelve months, and the task-horizon metric to actually track.
- The Advisor strategy (cheap worker, capable advisor) and what it is worth in pounds.
- The verification loop: being Claude's training wheels, and the two failure modes the talks called out.
- The org-chart shift: agent supervisors and eval owners, and how the headcount maths really changes.
- Receipts you can defend at the board, and how managed agents + MCP tunnels kill the security objection.