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Author Thanks Anthropic for Making Rejecting Startups Obsolete

An individual expresses profound gratitude towards Anthropic, stating that the company's recent product announcement has rendered obsolete several startups that had previously rejected the author's job applications. The author reflects on past experiences of disillusionment and repeated rejection within the tech industry, where competence was seemingly overlooked in favor of connections. This announcement from Anthropic, however, is seen as a form of justice, structurally invalidating the premises upon which those rejecting companies operate. AI

IMPACT Suggests a shift in the AI industry where a major player's product release can render niche competitors structurally obsolete.

RANK_REASON Personal opinion piece reflecting on a company's product announcement and its impact on the author's career.

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Author Thanks Anthropic for Making Rejecting Startups Obsolete

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Mahmoud 🦀 ·

    Thank You, Anthropic: Every Startup That Rejected Me Is Now Obsolete

    <p>Hey everyone 👋,</p> <p>I want to start with something I rarely do, which is express genuine and unambiguous gratitude. Not the performative kind where someone says thank you and means nothing by it, not the kind that comes with a list of caveats, not the kind that corporate pe…