“If you optimize below 1487 cycles, beating Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at launch, email us at performance-recruiting@anthropic.com with your code (and ideally a resume) so we can be appropriately impressed and perhaps discuss interviewing.”

> at launch

Does this confirm they actually do knee cap models after the launch period to save money, without telling users?

The company that wanted to simply get away with the thievery of terabytes of intellectual property, what a great place to work at! Not. Anthropic has no shame.