"Hunger beats tenure."
Great write-up by Felix on why his team at Anthropic dropped coding interviews: newer engineers are flying past stronger, more tenured coders.
Execution isn't expensive anymore. Inside a company, the signal is picking an idea that moves the business and
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.
I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-t…
Before adding another subagent ask what problem it's solving. A bloated system prompt is often the issue.
Skills and tool search can fix that without splitting context across agents. My rule of thumb is to keep a subagent when the work is parallel, needs fresh context or one
