Alexander Oelling

Holy shit. Anthropic engineers don't write code anymore. A new hire just leaked what's actually happening inside the company shipping harder than anyone in 2026: Nobody on his team has hand-written code in months. They run multiple agents in parallel and act like managers, not engineers. His exact words: "if you're just watching an agent code, you're already behind. that idle time should be spent spinning up another agent and directing it somewhere else." The mental model isn't "use AI to code faster." It's "you are the PM, the agents are your engineers, and your job is to keep all of them unblocked." He called it being "fully AI aligned" as a team and said it changes what's even possible to build. The productivity gap between people who think this way and people who don't is already enormous. And the proof is simple: Anthropic has shipped harder than any company in 2026. If you're still hand-writing code, you're not behind on tools. You're behind on the job itself.

no 👏 more 👏 permission prompts 👏

prototyping a 3d gallery with claude.. kind of crazy what you can build in a few minutes now

Human tendency to conform, especially when in large groups, is terrifying. Propaganda machines leverage this throughout human history. The way out is to think freely, detached from the divisive narratives of the day that masquerade as universal truths. This often feels lonely.