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points by hypfer 2 days ago | 0 comments

> As a hiring manager at Anthropic, I stopped asking candidates to do them.

Before engaging with this content, one should keep in mind the very specific circumstances, that person is working in.

There might be learnings or thoughts that carry over to other businesses, but chances are high that most don't.

[–] vdfs 2 days ago

That made me stop reading, it'sobvious what he will say. Also why are they hiring, should just spun more agents

[–] hypfer 2 days ago

IMO the right choice.

It is either active PR or it is the kool aid seeping into this random guys thoughts and equally poisoning them.

[–] spit2wind 1 day ago

There's also the angle of encouraging a lot of people who don't know any better to rapidly build things that then need to be maintained, all under the pretense that the guy's product will avoid that inevitability...if you just buy more!

[–] ImaCake 1 day ago

This is true for literally anything you read though? It wouldn't be worth reading anyone's blogs or books if they all had the same experience. Maybe the guy who helped invent Electron and Claude Code has something interesting to say.

[–] rwmj 1 day ago

But why wouldn't you take advice from a company that loses billions and actively brags that no one understands how its main product works?!

[–] satvikpendem 1 day ago

Their S1 shows they're profitable.