Engineer working on Claude Code at Anthropic
Thariq Shihipar
Thariq Shihipar is an engineer working on Claude Code at Anthropic. His projects span AI agents, developer tools, gaming, and academic publishing.
About Thariq Shihipar
Thariq Shihipar is an engineer and entrepreneur working on Claude Code at Anthropic, according to his official website. His published technical writing covers subjects including language-model-based sorting and AI interpretability.
Shihipar previously founded the gaming company One More Multiverse and co-founded PubPub, an academic publishing platform. His projects also include tools for creating AI agents, AI-assisted copyediting, and email prioritization. He studied at the MIT Media Lab.
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- The "Interview Me" Prompt That Fills Claude's Memory in One Session →
On September 11, 2026, Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar shared a prompt that tells Claude to interview you in depth — using free text or the AskUserQuestion tool — and save what it learns to memory. Blake Robbins' quoted post framing sparked 232K views. explainx.ai breaks down the prompt, the staleness problem it doesn't solve, and how it compares to CLAUDE.md.
- NEAR AI Reportedly Solved Putnam Bench for $111 — 250x Cheaper →
According to reporting circulating on September 6-7, 2026, NEAR AI ran Putnam Bench — a benchmark built from Putnam Mathematical Competition problems — for roughly $111 in total inference cost, described as a 250x reduction versus the second-cheapest prior result. We could not locate a primary source confirming the exact score, pass threshold, or methodology, so this is a reported claim, not a verified one — but the cost-efficiency angle is worth taking seriously either way.
- Kevin Ngo's Fable 5 Personal Website: 10% of Weekly Usage, 1.3M Views →
A viral X post from Kevin Ngo (@kevin_t_ngo) shows Claude Fable 5 designing an introspective, hand-drawn single-page website about itself — boats, lanterns, cosmic loops, and an original melody. Ngo says the piece burned roughly 10% of his weekly Fable usage. Here is the craft and cost breakdown.
- Antigravity Now Builds Interactive Generative UI Artifacts Inside Your IDE →
Google Antigravity can now render interactive HTML/CSS/JS artifacts inline and in its artifacts panel, driven by a /generative_ui slash command and exportable to a standalone HTML file. It landed in version 2.11.0 alongside Chart.js, Plotly, and KaTeX support. Here's what it actually costs, how it compares to Claude Artifacts and Mermaid, and the security question Google's docs do not yet answer.
- Tobi Threatens Claude Code Ban Over AGENTS.md — Shopify Split-Brain Problem →
On August 25, 2026, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke floated banning Claude Code until Anthropic reads AGENTS.md and .agents/skills — not just CLAUDE.md. DHH called it unnecessary; engineers posted symlink workarounds. explainx.ai maps the split-brain problem when Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code share one repo.