AI Northwest Coffee Social - Claude Code Customization, Agentic Engineering, and the $285B SaaS Selloff
THIS MONTH IN AI
Anthropic shipped Cowork plugins. $285 billion evaporated from SaaS stocks in a week. Cowork hit Windows, 70% of desktop users just got access. The ground is moving. Claude Code customization is becoming its own discipline. CLAUDE.md files, slash commands, skills, plugins. Have you configured custom sounds for your hooks, you should!
Agentic engineering is separating from the demo reel. Long-horizon reliability, error recovery, trust boundaries, the systems that work in production look nothing like the demos, and the hard-won knowledge is still trapped in individual teams.
The SaaS selloff is the market pricing in what builders already feel. When a general-purpose agent reads your files, runs your workflows, and connects to your CRM.
WHAT WE'LL DISCUSS
How are you customizing Claude Code?? And what broke before it worked? What separates agents that ship from agents that demo well? Where's the line between delegation and unsupervised decision-making?
HOW TO FIND US
Head to the back of the shop. Metal curtain — go around the corner to the left. Look for the people with strong opinions about CLAUDE.md file structure.
WHO SHOULD COME
Engineers customizing their Claude Code setups. Founders watching the SaaS repricing. Anyone building agent systems that need to work longer than fifteen minutes.
Free — buy your own coffee.
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