Der Schöpfer von Anthropics Claude Code sagt, er stellt Ingenieure ein, die „Generalisten“ sind und nach „Wochenendprojekten“ suchen.
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-code-creator-hires-engineers-generalists-weekend-projects-2025-12
Der Schöpfer von Anthropics Claude Code sagt, er stellt Ingenieure ein, die „Generalisten“ sind und nach „Wochenendprojekten“ suchen.
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-code-creator-hires-engineers-generalists-weekend-projects-2025-12
13 Kommentare
Huh, why is he hiring engineers? Just hire claude????
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Nothing controversial here, just common sense.
If I was hiring for a small engineering team, I’d pick the person that makes beer on weekends or has a home assistant setup at home… people for whom “building things” is an inherent itch that must be scratched. All of the best engineers I’ve worked with are like that. They are the ones that would rather have a story carry over to the next sprint because they are annoyed system performance has dropped and *they don’t know why*.
An opposite example is someone who has multiple certifications in Java or Spring Boot, finishes the story a day early, and spends the next day cleaning out their inbox. They never ask questions, and never feel strongly enough about anything to argue about it.
More Gilfoyle than Bighetti, if you know what I mean.
I’m the type of programmer that always learned enough about a thing to operate and not more. Docker Linux react vim spring boot Astro node express nginx cloud flare aws supabase sql networking, whatever. Ever since Claude code and ai, being a generalist allows me to work in an abstraction level higher than I was before. If before I was playing tje roles of different foot soldiers and engineers, now I’m a general and a strategist. An architect. It’s really crazy how much ai has enabled me. I’m basically augmented. I feel like a lot of people are still asking what ai can do for them and talking about how it spits out junk code. I wouldn’t recommend vibe coding I think thats bunk unless it’s not that important of a project, but pair programming with ai is a super power. Nowadays it’s all about being an abstraction higher. Knowing how the pieces can fit together and good patterns to keep the ship from imploding. Taking the chaos of ai and tethering it to debuggable systems. Anyway I could go on.
I look for weekend projects too, my favorite one is *not doing work*.
The weekend projects: working for anthropic on aimless r and d.
As someone who is a generalist, HIRE ME!
we engineers, are typical creators, innovators, inventors, problem solver so when it comes to fixing things like a cars, mountain bikes, dirt bikes or your home it’s pretty straightforward and easy to do. It just comes natural! so when things are broken, we fix it. Doesn’t matter what you’re working on we’ll figure it out
They’re hiring their friends. Everything else is just a cover for it.
This is such a misleading title, and the comments really show how nobody on Reddit actually read the title (or the comment they were replying to).
>Cherny’s definition of side quests includes „cool weekend projects,“ like someone who’s „really into making kombucha.“ It’s a sign that the engineer is curious and interested in other things, he said.
I just got hired somewhere that is now benefitting from my weekend projects. It wasn’t Anthropic.
Funny thing, they had no idea about my weekend projects and I had no idea they really needed them. Life uh, uh… found a way.
I was reached out by an Anthropic recruiter and they wanted me to be able to solve hard level leetcode and go through 5 rounds of interviews. I’m glad I’m retiring in a few years so I don’t have to deal with these stupid interviews anymore.
So he’s looking for people with literally no life and will work for free.