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The Anthropic Hive Mind. As you’ve probably noticed, something… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026 | Medium

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As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off. This whole post is just spidey-sense stuff. Don’t read too much into it. Just hunches. Vibes, really. If you run some back-of-envelope math on how hard it is to get into Anthropic, as an industry professional, and compare it to your odds of making it as a HS or college player into the National Football League, you’ll find the odds are comparable. Everyone I’ve met from Anthropic is the best of the best of the best, to an even crazier degree than Google was at its peak. (Evidence: Google hired me. I was the scrapest of the byest.) Everyone is gravitating there, and I’ve seen this movie before, a few times. I’ve been privileged to have some long, relatively frank conversations with nearly 40 people at Anthropic in the past four months, from cofounders and execs, to whole teams, to individuals from departments across the company: AI research, Engineering, GTM, Sales, E

The Anthropic Hive Mind Steve Yegge 16 min read · Feb 6, 2026 -- 95 Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off. This whole post is just spidey-sense stuff. Don’t read too much into it. Just hunches. Vibes, really. If you run some back-of-envelope math on how hard it is to get into Anthropic, as an industry professional, and compare it to your odds of making it as a HS or college player into the National Football League, you’ll find the odds are comparable.

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