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ANTHROPIC PERFORMANCE TEAM TAKE-HOME FOR DUMMIES

Anthropic used to give prospective performance engineering candidates a notoriously difficult take-home exam designed to assess technical ability and judgment under time pressure. This practice was retired after Claude Opus 4.5 scored higher than any candidate ever after just two hours of work. The company has released the assignment publicly along with a post detailing its design principles. This post breaks down the challenge from start to finish and explains everything from scratch.

APPLE'S XCODE NOW SUPPORTS THE CLAUDE AGENT SDK

Xcode 26.3 introduces a native integration with the Claude Agent SDK. Developers now have the full power of Claude Code directly in Xcode without having to leave the IDE. Claude can work autonomously on sophisticated, long-running tasks. The integration supports visual verification with Previews, reasoning across projects, autonomous task execution, and interfacing through the Model Context Protocol. Xcode 26.3 is now available as a release candidate for all members of the Apple Developer Program.

LESSONS LEARNED SHIPPING 500 UNITS OF MY FIRST HARDWARE PRODUCT

Simon Berens left his job as a software engineer in January 2025 to launch a hardware product, Brighter: the world's brightest lamp. Berens had no prior experience in hardware and was counting on being able to pick it up quickly with the help of other engineers. This article takes a look at the challenges Berens had to overcome, like making the lamp in the first place, tariffs, and manufacturing issues, and details the lessons that he learned along the way.

SAM ALTMAN REVEALS WHY OPENAI IS POISED TO MAKE THE BIGGEST BUSINESS BETS EVER

Sam Altman has a tendency to race ahead with ideas that excite him. While it is a tentpole of his success, it has gotten him in trouble in the past. Altman's itch to release products quickly is informed by his study of Xerox PARC, a legendary Silicon Valley research lab known for inventing the modern graphical user interface, laser printers, and the computer mouse, yet failing to commercialize any of them. Altman's reputation for shiny object syndrome can be harmful - OpenAI has been criticized in the past for releasing products without proper safety testing and for shipping features that prioritize engagement over psychological well-being.

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