Feb 6, 2026 – 8.23am
You’ve probably never heard of Aditya Agarwal, an Indian-American software engineer and investor. But there would be few Australians who haven’t used a product he helped build, first as the 10th employee at Facebook – and its inaugural director of product engineering – and later as the chief technology officer at Dropbox.
On Monday night, Agarwal posted a confession on X. He’d just spent most of the weekend coding with Claude, the artificial intelligence platform developed by Anthropic, and he’d suddenly realised a lifetime building his skill set wasn’t worth nearly as much as he thought it was.
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