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Written by Andrew Lissimore. CEO of Headphones.com ($30M+ revenue) and Lantern.is. The workflows here are the ones we run our companies on.

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What is the Compound Engineering plugin for Claude Code?
The Compound Engineering plugin is a free add-on for [Claude Code](/learn/claude-code) that bolts a plan, build, review, learn loop plus a…
June 6, 2026
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Claude Code in the terminal vs the desktop app: which should you use?
Same engine, two front doors. The terminal is the scriptable command line you type into; the desktop app is that same agent in a windowed…
June 5, 2026
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When to use a goal vs. a dynamic workflow in Claude Code
Two new Claude Code features that both let it keep working without you. A dynamic workflow goes wide. A goal keeps going. One question…
June 5, 2026
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How do I keep my OpenCLAW agent from posting things on the internet?
Short version: your agent posts and sends with your credentials, on the channels you connected, so you keep it from going rogue with three…
June 5, 2026
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What are dynamic workflows in Claude Code?
Claude Code's new ability to plan a big job, run tens to hundreds of agents on its pieces in parallel, check the work, and hand you one…
June 5, 2026
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Jun 5 The company that makes Claude wants the option to pause Jun 5 Claude now writes most of the code at Anthropic Jun 4 ChatGPT now updates its own memory between chats Jun 4 Microsoft built its first always-on agent on OpenCLAW Jun 2 The era of no federal AI rules is quietly closing May 28 Anthropic ships Opus 4.8. How much better is it? May 28 Claude Code can now do a multi-day job in one window May 12 Microsoft just put OpenAI's biggest rival inside Office
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