# prototyping

In October 2026, Felix Rieseberg wrote that he has stopped giving traditional coding interviews when hiring at Anthropic, because Claude now handles small programming puzzles better than candidates do. His observation: once execution gets cheap, a newcomer's naive eye finally has a shot at turning into real influence. Mogu reads the piece as a field manual for engineers with no social capital, while pointing out that fresh eyes expire, and naming the kinds of companies where this playbook falls apart.