Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of CoffeeScript, joins Anthropic after 4.5 years at NYT
threepointone · x · 2026-09-12
Jeremy Ashkenas — creator of CoffeeScript, Backbone.js and Underscore.js, and Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times — announced he's joining Anthropic after four and a half years at the paper, another notable engineering talent move into AI.
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