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May 18, 2026

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.

Also today

  • Amjad Masad (Replit)
  • swyx
  • Hugging Face (Thomas Wolf)
  • Notion
  • Google Vertex AI
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