Rethinking Claude Code Best Practices — Lydia Hallie, Anthropic

Lydia Hallie

Talks worth your time · Courses & workshops · 2026-11-12 · 18 min · 10 pages

The models have gotten really good, and most of what we've added to our Claude Code setups over the past year is now holding them back. In this talk I'll go through what Claude Code best practices look like for the Claude 5.5 models, what's still worth keeping, and what you no longer need to think about. Speaker info: Lydia Hallie Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic Lydia Hallie is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, working on developer relations for Claude Code. She creates technical content, talks, and workshops that help developers understand how Claude Code works and how to use it effectively.

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