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▶ 21:30 · $ANTHROPIC · Anthropic reveals token economics strategy: advising, grading, dreaming patterns beat brute force
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Inside Anthropic's 200-Person Platform Team | Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang

2026-08-25 · 3 company · 12 thematic
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angela jiang

Co-leads Anthropic's platform team with Caitlyn. Defines north stars for internal leverage (speed to AGI products) and external builder enablement. Drives verticalization strategy (finance, legal, manufacturing) and form-factor experimentation.

katelyn lesse

Joined Anthropic ~1 year ago from Stripe where she worked on Stripe Connect and the V2 Accounts API. Leads platform product and infrastructure for Anthropic's developer platform including managed agents, sandboxes, and MCP integrations.

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“We've seen like sonnet executing with opus advising ends up getting almost opus level performance and it's actually cheaper than just sonnet because opus taught it how to do its job better and it used less tokens to get the job done.”
—katelyn lesse

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