Anthropic is at a place where they need the world's best software engineers, and they're willing to comp at insane levels to get them. However: You simply cannot post a Linkedin job for "Really Good Software Engineer, comp $10M+" and make any sense of the inbound applications you'll get. They're not the first to figure this out, and they won't be the last: Successfully building a company, and using that company's products, is actually the best job interview you can ask for if you can pay for that caliber of candidate. What you should be paying attention to: Stainless is shutting down, and their team is joining Anthropic to build, who knows, some dumb integration to make Hubspot data available in Claude, or something equally as boring. But, Stainless was successful. Be the next Stainless. The idea is already validated, these AI companies have already done this to a handful of companies and they're going to keep doing it.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is commonly framed as a technological force transforming economies, labor markets, scientific discovery, and social interaction. While these impacts are profound, they represent only the surface of a deeper historical and philosophical shift. We argue that AI constitutes a fourth major decentering revolution in human self-understanding. The Copernican revolution displaced humans from the center of the universe, the Darwinian revolution displaced humans from the pinnacle of biological life, the Freudian revolution displaced the conscious ego from the throne of the mind, and today AI initiates a cognitive decentering revolution, challenging the long-held assumption that humans occupy a unique and unassailable position at the apex of intelligence.