alt Hacker NewsThe snarky writing of "if you beat our best solution, send us an email and MAYBE we think about interviewing you" is really something, innit?
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They wrote:
> If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at [email protected] with your code (and ideally a resume) so we can be appropriately impressed and perhaps discuss interviewing.
That doesn’t seem snarky to me. They said if you beat Opus, not their best solution. Removing “perhaps” (i.e. MAYBE) would be worse since that assumes everyone wants to interview at Anthropic. I guess they could have been friendlier: “if you beat X, we’d love to chat!”
They may not be able to hire folks in certain jurisdictions. Or even interview them. (Iran, NK)
If you're an asshole that wants millions of dollars...i mean there's still places to say no
Pride comes before fall thankfully
its anthrophic. their entire marketing is just being an pompous ass and AI fear mongering.
I feel that came out wrong but the "maybe" was intended to be a way of saying "no guarantees", to avoid giving people the idea "solve this, get hired".