SpaceXAI reportedly poaches two key Claude Code engineers from Anthropic
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-25
A viral post claims SpaceXAI may have hired away two key engineers from Anthropic's Claude Code team: Thariq Shihipar, who helped scale Claude Code for over a year, and Anthony Morris, who built the Claude Code desktop app. Both have left Anthropic, though the poaching remains unconfirmed. The takeaway: AI labs are now fighting as hard over product-engineering talent as they do over benchmarks, since billions spent on training matter little without the people who turn frontier models into products developers love.
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