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by qwery 7 days ago
This is incredible.[0]

Please, IPO now. File the paperwork.

> To take just one example: today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did from 2021-2025.

Do you have another example?

Engineers don't ship [period] for no reason. So, either:

- Those aren't engineers, or

- they are literally dying of shame & embarrassment right now, or

- you measured something that indicated that this was a useful thing to do and have elected to share an overtly, catastrophically flawed metric instead.

[0] as in a total lack of credibility
1 comments
JohnMakin 7 days ago
Go look at open job listings at anthropic and the interview process. You aren’t allowed to use AI during coding assessments[0], or knowledge assessments, which suggests they very much do need and value hard skills and this is fluff.

[0] - https://www.anthropic.com/candidate-ai-guidance

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qwery 7 days ago
I'm not sure what point you're making.

I'm responding to the article they wrote and published.

If I worked there I would be embarrassed to have it publicised that I have been comitting 8 times as much code as I used to without even attempting to justify it.

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JohnMakin 7 days ago
The point I am making is the article you are responding to is marketing hype and that they are lying. Their engineers, I am fairly sure, are doing engineering. At least to the point Anthropic's interview process is trying to filter for people with engineering skills, not "how do you best leverage AI to make more AI" skills like this seems to imply.
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qwery 7 days ago
You seem to have taken offense on behalf of the people working there. But I'm not attacking them nor seriously questioning their abilties/qualifications/performance. The slight reference I made to such was in an exclusive rhetorical device -- the situation presented cannot be, unless something unbelievable is occurring.

It's the organisation, its culture, the greater culture surrounding it, and the marketing that I have a problem with.

> they are lying

Yes, it's incredible.

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JohnMakin 7 days ago
I’ve not taken offense at anything - am supplying more information to supplement your post. if it’s not clear, I don’t really disagree, other than at their salary bands and stock comp I’m not sure I’d be taking big issue with press releases like this.
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