Anthropic’s Margot van Laar just dropped one of the cleanest free breakdowns on prompt engineering for real agent systems
0% → 00:00 - why “better prompting” starts with evals, not vibes
25% → 03:40 - how to clean a broken production prompt after a model migration
50% → 07:10 - why structure, output contracts, and tools beat endlessly adding instructions
75% → 10:20 - how to build an agentic workflow instead of one giant mega-prompt
100% → 13:20 - why Generate → Evaluate → Repair is the loop that actually scales
Most people still treat prompts like magic text
She treats them like production systems
Evals → Structure → Tools → Agent Loop
That same mindset is exactly what matters in quant
Claude can generate the strategy
Python can test it
But the system still needs to verify, reject, and repair before anything reaches capital
Watch the full 14-minute session today
Then read the full AI trading system below ↓
Anthropic just showed Claude Code doing the part most people still treat as manual engineering work
And that same workflow is exactly why Claude is so interesting for quant
Give it one hypothesis
Let Claude Code turn it into a full research loop:
Idea → Generate Variants → Write Python → Backtest → Stress Costs → Walk-Forward → Reject / Keep
The important part is not asking Claude whether a strategy is “good”
Claude should build the experiment
Python should compute the result
The validation layer should try to break it
And the human should still control the capital
That is where Claude Code becomes more than a coding assistant
It becomes the operating layer around an entire quant lab
Watch the demo
Then read the full Claude Code AI Trading Lab guide below ↓