---
title: "Tokens Should Have Jobs"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-07-01"
time: "10:45am-11:05am"
track: "Harness Engineering"
room: "Main Stage"
speakers: ["Katelyn Lesse", "Angela Jiang"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Harness Engineering"
scheduleRoom: "Main Stage"
scheduleLabels: ["Harness Engineering", "Main Stage", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Tokens Should Have Jobs

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 10:45am-11:05am
- Track/room: Harness Engineering · Main Stage
- Speaker(s): Katelyn Lesse, Angela Jiang
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: Harness Engineering
- Room: Main Stage
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
No official description published in the schedule data.

## Media Evidence
[Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqW68Is_Kj4) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

- Source video: `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4`
- Slide deck: [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-dense-slides|Dense Slides: Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic]] — 5 visible slide image(s); 5 HTML recreation(s).
![[assets/dense-slides/aqW68Is_Kj4/slide-001.jpg]]
![[assets/dense-slides/aqW68Is_Kj4/slide-002.jpg]]
![[assets/dense-slides/aqW68Is_Kj4/slide-003.jpg]]
- Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-slides|Slides: Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic]], [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic]]
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4`: claude, context, give, model, developer, platform, maximizes, intelligence.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
- `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4` — 10 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4`: claude, context, give, model, developer, platform, maximizes, intelligence.
- Evidence links for `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4`: [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4]], [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-slides]], [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-dense-slides]], [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-reconstructed-slides]]

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.

## People
- [[katelyn-lesse]]
- [[angela-jiang]]

## Supporting Slides
- [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-slides]] — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.

## Slide Evidence
- Slide-only cropped deck: [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-dense-slides]] (5 viable slide images).
- Related slide/OCR pages:
- [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-dense-slides]]
- [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-reconstructed-slides]]
- [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-slides]]
- Slide-derived terms: `claude`, `context`, `evolving`, `apis`, `katelyn`, `lesse`, `leader`, `engineering`, `anthrop`, `biases`, `give`, `mirren`, `model`, `weights`, `google`, `deepmind`, `payment`, `aren`

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Tokens Should Have Jobs ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 10:45am-11:05am - Track/room: Harness Engineering · Main Stage - Speaker(s): Katelyn Lesse, Angela Jiang - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Harness Engineering - Room: Main Stage - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description No official description published in the schedule data. ## Media Evidence [Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqW68Is_Kj4) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions). - Source video: `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4` - Slide deck: [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-dense-slides|Dense Slides: Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic]] — 5 visible slide image(s); 5 HTML recreation(s). ![[assets/dense-slides/aqW68Is_Kj4/slide-001.jpg]] ![[assets/dense-slides/aqW68Is_Kj4/slide-002.jpg]] ![[assets/dense-slides/aqW68Is_Kj4/slide-003.jpg]] - Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-slides|Slides: Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic]], [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic]] - Slide-derived themes for `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4`: claude, context, give, model, developer, platform, maximizes, intelligence.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[katelyn-lesse|Katelyn Lesse]] — Head of Engineering, Claude Platform at [[anthropic|Anthropic]].
- [[angela-jiang|Angela Jiang]] — Head of Product, Claude Platform at [[anthropic|Anthropic]].

### Topics Covered
- [[coding-agents]]

### Derived Links And Source Material
- [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4]] — related YouTube source page.
- [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-reconstructed-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-dense-slides]] — slide evidence.

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.