@svpino: Why is Anthropic hiring Software Engineers? Why aren't they using agents with loops to do all of this?
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A tweet questioning why Anthropic is hiring software engineers instead of using AI agents with loops to automate the work.
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Why is Anthropic hiring Software Engineers? Why aren’t they using agents with loops to do all of this? https://t.co/dr30kRmi7H
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