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Yegge describes the mood at Anthropic as sadly transcendent

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Steve Yegge described the mood at Anthropic as sweetly but sadly transcendent, with staff pitying people at other companies who do not see what is coming.

Reporting date: 2026-02-09 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 9, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to February 9, 2026

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Anthropic

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Altman says asking Codex for ideas made him feel useless

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Welcome to February 9, 2026

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Yegge describes the mood at Anthropic as sadly transcendent
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Reporting date: 2026-02-09
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-09-sweetly-but-sadly-transcendent
Claim: Steve Yegge described the mood at Anthropic as sweetly but sadly transcendent, with staff pitying people at other companies who do not see what is coming.
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- Welcome to February 9, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-9-2026
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