Anthropic engineers felt isolated working with AI, prompting pairwise programming lunches
Fiona Fung · What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Claude Code & Cowork) · Jun 21, 2026 · at 56:35
Fiona Fung, engineering leader for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, discusses cultural side effects and loneliness that emerged as engineers began working primarily alongside AI agents.
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“The other thing that we found interesting on the Cloud Code team is after a while we felt it could start being a lonely experience cause we all started just working with our agents so much. So recently we started maybe like a pairwise programming lunch.”
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