> If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at [email protected] with your code (and ideally a resume) so we can be appropriately impressed and perhaps discuss interviewing.
That doesn’t seem snarky to me. They said if you beat Opus, not their best solution. Removing “perhaps” (i.e. MAYBE) would be worse since that assumes everyone wants to interview at Anthropic. I guess they could have been friendlier: “if you beat X, we’d love to chat!”
> If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at [email protected] with your code (and ideally a resume) so we can be appropriately impressed and perhaps discuss interviewing.
That doesn’t seem snarky to me. They said if you beat Opus, not their best solution. Removing “perhaps” (i.e. MAYBE) would be worse since that assumes everyone wants to interview at Anthropic. I guess they could have been friendlier: “if you beat X, we’d love to chat!”