Anthropic's Lydia Hallie on Claude Code best practices: 'The modern programming language is English'
ghumare64 · x · 2026-11-12
Lydia Hallie from Anthropic's Claude Code team gave a talk, "Rethinking Claude Code Best Practices," at AI Engineer, arguing "the modern programming language is English." She demoed configuring autoMode in .claude/settings.json with natural-language rules: trusted environments (GitHub orgs, S3 buckets, internal domains), allow rules like staging deploys, and harddeny rules such as never sending code to third-party APIs.
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