@DeRonin_: nobody gets a $350k offer from Anthropic with a certificate they get it by showing what they've shipped 5 pet projects …

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A thread advising that to get a high offer from Anthropic, one must ship real projects like a RAG system, an agent from scratch, an eval harness, a fully deployed product, and a business automation, rather than relying on certificates.

nobody gets a $350k offer from Anthropic with a certificate they get it by showing what they've shipped 5 pet projects that make you unrejectable: 1. a production RAG system chat-with-your-docs with reranking + citations, deployed.. the single most in-demand skill right now 2. an agent from scratch, zero framework proves you understand the loop.. not just how to glue LangChain together 3. an eval harness anyone can demo.. proving it works across 100 inputs is what separates seniors from juniors 4. a fully deployed product docker, auth, cost caps, logging.. survives real traffic at 2am 5. a real business automation lead qualification or support triage that saves someone actual money they don't care what you studied.. they care what you shipped the full roadmap to build all 5 is in the article.. save it
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nobody gets a $350k offer from Anthropic with a certificate

they get it by showing what they’ve shipped

5 pet projects that make you unrejectable:

  1. a production RAG system chat-with-your-docs with reranking + citations, deployed.. the single most in-demand skill right now

  2. an agent from scratch, zero framework proves you understand the loop.. not just how to glue LangChain together

  3. an eval harness anyone can demo.. proving it works across 100 inputs is what separates seniors from juniors

  4. a fully deployed product docker, auth, cost caps, logging.. survives real traffic at 2am

  5. a real business automation lead qualification or support triage that saves someone actual money

they don’t care what you studied.. they care what you shipped

the full roadmap to build all 5 is in the article.. save it

@DeRonin_ 5 pet projects is a lot, but honestly, even getting one solid project up and running is huge. Baby steps count too.

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