[AINews] Anthropic ends Coding Interviews: "Hunger beats tenure"

Several midsize headlines today; on top of some impressive Math verification, Google Genie and Artificial Analysis and FrontierCode all shipped major version bumps of their top offerings, all of which have been AINews title stories in the past, but are mostly annual incremental improvements. This month, I laid the traditional coding interview to rest. As a hiring manager at Anthropic, I stopped asking candidates to do them… …There’s no more point in giving you a little React challenge than there is in quizzing people about assembly; Claude is now better at both. Our most impactful builders are successful regardless of how good they are at these tests. Pick business impact over backlog: In pre-AI-coding 2011, Patrick McKenzie wrote “engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things.” Pick business impact over backlog: In pre-AI-coding 2011, Patrick McKenzie wrote “engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things.” Pick a radical idea: Come up with a few ideas that would, if successful, dramatically improve the chances that your organization achieves those goals. Be ambitious! Pick a radical idea: Come up with a few ideas that would, if successful, dramatically improve the chances that your organization achieves those…