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Anthropic's Claude Code job posting specifically seeks engineers with Bun experience.

Dax Reed · ⚡️OpenCode: Claude Code but Open Source, with Any Model, and frontier TUI - with Dax Reed (@thdxr) · Aug 5, 2025 · at 16:03

Dax Reed, creator of OpenCode and SST, discusses how developer tool creators package their binaries, noting Anthropic's Claude Code team is hiring for Bun experience.

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“I've seen now cloud code in their job posting. They actually mentioned specifically they're hiring someone that has experience in bun executables.”

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