If you've checked the LinkedIn page or a conference talk of any engineer at Anthropic, OpenAI etc., you've surely stumbled over their somewhat unusual job title 'Member of Technical Staff (MTS)'. What's the motivation to move on from the well-established 'Software Engineer'? I've heard some arguments towards removing the seniority from the title, but that's … Continue reading The reinvention of the ‘Member of Technical Staff’
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Using Frontier Models for Cybersecurity
Anthropic is continuing its rise by providing not only the arguably strongest frontier model with Opus 4.6, but more importantly by shifting the SOTA of AI-based software development with Claude Code. In its most recent addition focused on security, they partnered with Mozilla to investigate the latest Firefox release. After all the dust had settled, … Continue reading Using Frontier Models for Cybersecurity
Computed fields in pydantic
I noticed that I haven't written anything in about a year, so I figured it would be nice to document some smaller things that I've learned recently. In order to parse a configuration file, I recently needed to compute fields in a pydantic.BaseModel so that the information was accessible not only via the property, but … Continue reading Computed fields in pydantic
Daniel Lenz 