Tooling6d ago
X discussion: Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg says he dropped coding interviews for his team, arguing "hunger beats tenure", and the post passes 1M views
Felix Rieseberg, whose X bio says he builds things at Anthropic, posted on Oct 27 that the coding interview is "dead, at least for my team at Anthropic" and that he removed it from his hiring loops this month, linking an essay titled "Hunger beats tenure" with advice for junior engineers. The post drew about 9,500 likes, over 1 million views and more than 10,000 bookmarks, sparking wide debate. This is his personal view and his teams practice, not an official Anthropic hiring policy.
Tooling2d ago
X discussion: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke backs the monorepo as a Shopify engineer calls it a boon for coding agents, while critics still prefer split repos
Shopify distinguished engineer Burke Libbey posted on November 1 that moving to a monorepo has been a boon for agents at Shopify; it needs thoughtful tooling and has downsides that take effort to mitigate, but he would not go back. He was replying to Darren Shepherd, who said a day earlier that he hates the idea that monorepos are great for agents. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke then quoted Burke and recalled Mikhail Parakhin telling him that every engineer hates the idea of moving to a monorepo, yet once it is there no engineer would want to work somewhere without one. Tobi's post drew about 1,115 likes, 454 bookmarks and 89K views and set off a wide debate. These are practitioner opinions, not an official technical announcement.
Tooling8d ago
Google's Gemma team says Gemini 4 Argon wrote vLLM optimizations that speed up gemma-4-E2B-it 2.85x on an A100
On Oct 26, Google's official @googlegemma account said a set of vLLM optimizations built with Gemini 4 Argon lifted gemma-4-E2B-it throughput on a single A100 from about 37,900 to 108,000+ tokens/sec, roughly 2.85x, with 100% token parity. The PRs were filed by Luciano Martins of Google DeepMind, and most are still under review.
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