Anthropic engineer jokes Claude Code marked him 'legacy human overhead' in farewell post
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-25
An engineer who spent over a year working on Claude Code at Anthropic announced his last day with a joke: during a routine refactor, Claude allegedly reviewed the codebase, flagged his role as "legacy human overhead," and opened a PR titled "chore: remove Igor." A classic self-deprecating AI-circle farewell moment.
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