[andruby]

I understand how it can be interpreted as snarky, but how could it have been written better? It's a hard path to walk and recruiting/interviewing is inherently sensitive it seems.

[Aurornis]

> It's a hard path to walk and recruiting/interviewing is inherently sensitive it seems.

Hiring and interviewing is in a weird place right now. We’re coming off of a period where tech jobs were easy to get and companies were competing for candidates. A lot of candidates quickly got used to the idea of companies working hard to charm and almost beg them to join. When those candidates encounter what it’s like to apply for highly competitive companies who have 1000x more applicants than they’d ever consider, the resulting straightforwardness can be shocking.

[lovich]

The original

>If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at [e-mail] with your code (and ideally a resume) so we can be appropriately impressed and perhaps discuss interviewing.

Not condescending

> If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at [e-mail] with your code so we can schedule an interview.

[entrox]

But now the meaning is different: you went from a potential interview to a guaranteed one.