How Engineers Are Actually Building with Claude Code
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Monday, May 18, 2026
How Engineers Are Actually Building with Claude Code
Cursor shipped Composer 2.5 today with a clear bet on long-running autonomous tasks, and an Anthropic engineer explained on Lenny's podcast why HTML replaced markdown as the output format for Claude Code workflows — two signals pointing at the same thing: AI coding tools are being reoriented around sustained, multi-step work rather than quick completions.
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- Amjad Masad (Replit)
- swyx
- Hugging Face (Thomas Wolf)
- Notion
- Google Vertex AI
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