{"id":53522,"date":"2026-05-02T05:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/53522\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:08:23","slug":"dario-does-not-respect-engineers-developer-urges-unhappy-techies-to-quit-anthropic-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/53522\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dario does not respect engineers\u2019: Developer urges unhappy techies to quit Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Developer and content creator Theo Browne<\/a> published a post addressed to Anthropic<\/a> employees in which he criticised the company\u2019s leadership and urged dissatisfied engineers to leave.<\/p>\n

Browne, who posts on X as @theo and has 325.7K followers, alleged that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei<\/a> does not respect engineers.<\/p>\n

Browne uses the online hub t3.gg<\/a> to host his blog and share recommendations. The site focuses on teaching modern web development<\/a> practices, especially within the JavaScript<\/a> and TypeScript ecosystems. He also has a popular Youtube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m doing this because you work for an evil cult. I’m begging you to wake up,\u201d said the straight-talking techie.<\/p>\n

Browne described the Anthropic work environment as fearful, criticised the quality of code being shipped, and said he would help unhappy employees find roles at other AI labs<\/a> and startups with compensation that could match or exceed their vesting schedules.
\u201cNobody deserves what you’re going through right now. You go to work afraid, you leave work afraid, and you go to YouTube to keep up on the dev world, just to hear me yelling all about how evil your company is,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Other posts from Browne\u2019s account have challenged Amodei\u2019s comments on the future of coding and software engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously, the blogger has also questioned Anthropic\u2019s product decisions and handling of developer-facing tools.
The remarks quickly drew reactions on X, both critical and supportive.<\/p>\n

Some users pushed back on Browne\u2019s characterisation of Anthropic\u2019s internal culture, saying it did not match the experiences they had heard from employees. Others questioned whether he had direct information about any firings or broader internal discontent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think this matches the experience of any anthropic employee I’ve ever spoken to,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n

Another user questioned the motive behind the post to which Browne replied: \u201cI want my friends to know they have a path out. That’s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re evil through and through,\u201d said one user, in support.<\/p>\n

Another disagreed with his perspective.
Others asked for evidence.
Another user wondered if the post was aimed at gaining \u201clikes\u201d
\u201cThey weaponised the hate against engineers to build a great coding AI,\u201d declared one user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developer and content creator Theo Browne published a post addressed to Anthropic employees in which he criticised the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[31198,587,586,31200,30684,6019,31197,31199],"class_list":{"0":"post-53522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dario-amodei","8":"tag-ai-labs","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-dario-amodei","11":"tag-javascript","12":"tag-software-engineering","13":"tag-tech-culture","14":"tag-theo-browne","15":"tag-web-development"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116503255630649445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}