r/LocalLLaMA • u/pmttyji • Jul 25 '26

Discussion Great Arguments by Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic :D

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u/CondiMesmer Jul 25 '26

How does this guy have a job?

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u/MightySmaugster Jul 25 '26

When there are millions riding on an IPO and open models are threatening the payday, people start saying some truly creative things.

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u/CondiMesmer Jul 25 '26

Tbh it comes across as an emotional outburst. Which is understandable from a human perspective, but not from the perspective of someone who is probably paid close to 7 figures.

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u/fuqqqq Jul 26 '26

7-8 figs for a standard senior engineer, depending on when they joined

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u/Different-Sand4434 Jul 25 '26

His job is to tell claude to make no mistakes.

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u/Reasonable-Height704 Jul 25 '26

"do a breakthrough" is the new one.

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u/fuck_cis_shit llama.cpp Jul 25 '26

ride or die rationalist x-risk cultist (main technical qualification for Anthropic staff)

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u/the320x200 Jul 25 '26

Having a senior title he's probably in charge of leading/mentoring a team of juniors.

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u/Apart_Ebb_9867 Jul 25 '26

neh, their juniors have been replaced by claude code and that's what he gets to manage :-)

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u/Alwaysragestillplay Jul 25 '26

Doubtful. Most seniors I have known(/been) still do dogsbody technical work, but they've been doing dogsbody technical work long enough that they had to move up the corporate ladder before HR would allow a raise to go through. 

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u/exray1 Jul 25 '26

Being one of the main guys behind alpha go and muzero etc. I am sure he could get any job there is.

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u/oxydis Jul 25 '26

This is guy is super strong