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WORTH TESTING · 23 OCTOBER 2026

Anthropic's Jess Yan on building long-running agents (a manipulated re-upload: watch Peter Yang's original instead)

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Verdict: great ideas on harnesses, self-correcting loops, evals and starting small; intermediate to advanced, and you need coding for tools and MCP.

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Anthropic's Jess Yan on building long-running agents (a manipulated re-upload: watch Peter Yang's original instead): steps to try, cost and caveat

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