Thariq Shihipar

Accomplishments

• Worked on Claude Code at Anthropic for more than a year, leaving in October 2026.²
• Founded One More Multiverse, a YC-backed gaming company that scaled to over a million users.¹
• Wrote a widely covered October 2026 post on the "mania" coding agents can produce.⁵⁴

Career

Shihipar's site lists a run of companies. Chime was a startup co-founded in undergrad and acquired by HubSpot; PubPub (pubpub.org) is a non-profit academic publishing platform Shihipar co-founded; Edgeout.gg was a bootstrapped gaming analytics platform sold to blitz.gg. One More Multiverse, the YC-backed gaming company, ran for five years, "scaled to over a million users" and "went viral on tiktok"; the site says the company raised $17MM.¹

The site also lists AI projects: LatentLit (a tool for creating and sharing LLM-powered agents), Quick Edit (AI copyediting), Sherpa (an email agent that prioritizes mail by contacts and goals) and AI World Building (a prototype for roleplaying games). Posts include "Should Developers Care about Interpretability?" (November 4, 2024) and "LLM-Powered Sorting with TrueSkill" (February 11, 2025).¹

Claude Code and leaving Anthropic

Shihipar worked on Claude Code at Anthropic. On October 24, 2026 Shihipar posted: "I've left Anthropic after more than a year of working on Claude Code and seeing it scale larger than I ever imagined", adding it was "time for a bit of a break before diving into something new", and pointed followers to Addy Osmani, Lydia Hallie, Cat Wu, Boris Cherny and the @ClaudeDevs account. The departure was reported by Dealroom and TokenPost.²⁶⁷

Coding agents and "mania"

On October 29, 2026 Shihipar wrote: "There's 100% a kind of mania you can get into with coding agents, where it feels like you're getting a lot done and working all the time but nothing is really happening. I think it's often a form of avoidance of something else in life." In a follow-up on October 30, Shihipar added that "coding agents are still a huge huge productivity multiplier for most people in most cases", but that people staying up all night with them should check on themselves. India Today covered the posts on October 30.⁵³⁴

Work and contributions

• One More Multiverse

  A Y Combinator-backed gaming company Shihipar founded and ran for five years; it scaled to over a million users.¹

• PubPub

  A non-profit academic publishing platform Shihipar co-founded.¹

• LatentLit

  A tool for creating and sharing LLM-powered agents.¹

Timeline

1. Nov 4, 2024Published "Should Developers Care about Interpretability?"¹
2. Feb 11, 2025Published "LLM-Powered Sorting with TrueSkill".¹
3. Oct 24, 2026Announced leaving Anthropic after more than a year on Claude Code.²
4. Oct 29, 2026Posted about the "mania" of coding agents.⁵
5. Oct 30, 2026Posted a follow-up; the posts were covered by India Today.³⁴

Documented roles

The sources do not confirm a current role; these are the roles they document.

• Worked on Claude Code (left October 2026), Anthropic (2026)¹²⁸
• Founder, One More Multiverse¹
• Co-founder (acquired by HubSpot), Chime¹
• Co-founder, PubPub¹
• Founder (sold to blitz.gg), Edgeout.gg¹

Companies in their history

• Anthropic 49 people in the wiki

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