Building Effective Agents: Insights from Barry Zhang at Anthropic

Recorded live at the Agent Engineering Session Day from the AI Engineer Summit 2025 in New York. Learn more at https://ai.engineer and purchase tickets to our next event, the AI Engineer World's Fair, in SF June 3 - 5 here: https://ti.to/software-3/ai-engineer-worlds-fair-2025 About Barry: Barry is a member of technical staff on Anthropic's Applied AI team, focusing on developing agentic systems with enterprises and startups. Previously, he was a tech lead on the Monetization genAI team at Meta, where he claimed the inaugural 'AI Engineer' title. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering from Northwestern