Claude Code tip: if a task turns out harder than you expected, type ultrathink while Claude is working. It raises the effort for the rest of that turn. In the terminal on the latest release.
ultrathink is back in the CC CLI.
We turned this off for a while because it's weird and maybe confusing.
But I like weird, and I don't think it's that confusing.
I mostly run Opus 5.5 on medium. Some turns, though, I want to put a little extra mustard on it. ultrathink!
"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…