Andy Halliday

They're making changes faster and faster to improve Claude Code, even as we're using it.

So you might have noticed if you've used Cloud Code that it has this really cute thing where it'll start its process after creating a plan and asking you to approve it and so on.

And it'll say, okay, I'm remunerating.

Now I'm discombobulating.

Now I'm gendifying or, you know, these interesting words go by.

Well, what that is a representation of is like in its plan, it has a to-do list.

It has to do a bunch of things in a sequence.

Well, Cloud Code has just been upgraded from to-dos in that process to Cloud Code tasks.

So it's a new primitive that Cloud Code uses to track and complete more complicated projects and collaborate across multiple subagents on those tasks.

So it can create tasks with dependencies on each other within the stack of tasks.

And those are all stored in metadata and mirroring how a project would work.

And tasks are stored in the file system now so that multiple subagents can access them.

So there's this sort of master task list that's being generated behind the scenes.

And then updates are broadcast to all the agents working on a task or on a set of tasks.

The update on a single task is broadcast to all the agents working in that domain so that everybody is up to speed.

Anytime one session with multiple agents updates a task.

So they're moving forward on the underlying infrastructure, the code infrastructure of how it manages and orchestrates the execution of the process.

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