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Sustainable Passion

Don't follow your passion that keeps you awake until 3 am doing stuff. Follow you passion that keeps you awake until 9 pm, after which you shower, rest, and go to bed voluntarily because this is the best choice. True passion is a 'sustainable passion'.

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Notes on Anthropic's Original Take-Home

Anthropic, the company behind the most powerful (at the moment) AI software development agent Claude Code, recently had to retire the take-home job interview assignment. The reason? They 'were about to release a model where the best strategy on take-home would be delegating to Claude Code'. According to Anthropic benchmarks, their Opus 4.5 model could beat in 2 hours what a human can make in 2 hours; and significantly beat most humans results if given 12 hours to work. Is it an incredible feat, or is it just a hype?

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Who Manages the Managers?

The hardest part of a senior software engineer's job isn't writing code. It is stopping your manager from passing off a Figma mockup as a product that's almost finished. But in the era of overly polite software development AI tools, used directly by the managers, whose job is it now to stop them?

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Pace of Innovation

Ever since Sonnet 3.7 came out, I have no doubt that the software engineer job (and thus, the job market) will change. I sincerely believe that in two years...

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4-Hour Workday

We can't productively do creative work for more than 4 hours a day. In 2014, I graduated from university and got a job at a biotech company, where I was doing data science and developing data pipelines for large biological data sequencing, specifically). There I learned a lot about the way I personally work...

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