@GergelyOrosz: I'll be posting a deepdive on this, having talked w sw engineers inside Anthropic's HQ about what they do. The short of…
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Gergely Orosz announces an upcoming deep dive on software engineering at Anthropic, based on conversations with their engineers, noting that engineers do broader work and focus on system design and coordination.
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I’ll be posting a deepdive on this, having talked w sw engineers inside Anthropic’s HQ about what they do.
The short of it: devs do a lot more+broader work than before; engineers do the design of systems (not AI); coordination v important. More to come in @Pragmatic_Eng
Santiago (@svpino): Why is Anthropic hiring Software Engineers? Why aren’t they using agents with loops to do all of this?
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