My friend applied to 250 tech jobs in two years. No MIT. No Stanford.
Last month Anthropic offered him $750,000.
I asked him how he broke in from zero.
He sent me the exact video that got him in. Anthropic's 2-hour course on how to become an AI engineer in 2026.
Thariq Shihipar shows you exactly how to build AI agents from scratch.
I watched it last night.
Halfway through, I realized I could break into an AI lab in months, not years.
Bookmark this and read the article below.
• 00:00 - AI agent harness
• 23:44 - building AI agent loops
• 56:39 - AI agent context engineering
• 1:33:34 - AI agent deterministic hooks
• 1:50:31 - Anthropic SWE interview process
This 2 hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT & Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.
Bookmark this & give 2 hours today, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this week.
I love to read autobiographies of people who started iconic companies. I was fortunate to work for Zuck and Bezos as their origin stories were still being written, and it's fun to pattern match against other founders. Here’s a list of some of my favorite business biographies:
If folks in control theory, info. theory, game theory, and optimization still don't work together to study intelligence, they will just have to watch ML and AI to reinvent everything they know piece by piece, under different names. All they can do is watching and complaining.