> The first time I flunked an Anthropic interview (ca. 2022), I accidentally clicked a wrong button during their automated coding challenge. It was easy to swallow that failure. I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews.

> This is different. I didn't misclick any buttons. My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough.

That’s a physically difficult passage for me to read, what an awful way to talk about yourself.