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Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 28, 2026Published at 2:21 AM EDT · New York
Two Senior Claude Code Engineers Leave Anthropic in the Days Before Its IPO Filing
Thariq Shihipar and Anthony Morris, who built the desktop app, left a product at the center of Anthropic's lead in coding, where Opus 5.5 now scores 89.9% on SWE-bench Pro.
Thariq Shihipar, one of the most public engineers on Anthropic's Claude Code team, announced on October 24 that he had left the company, the Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data reported. Shihipar was previously a researcher at the MIT M…
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Frontier Labs Race on AI Coding Capability
Coding is becoming a primary competitive battleground among frontier labs, with incumbents standing up permanent coding teams and investing in new training stages (e.g. midtraining) to match leaders like Anthropic; expect recurring reorganizations, benchmarks, and model releases aimed specifically at code.
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