Anthropic's AI agents now work six times more hours than its staff. Junior hiring fell from 27% to 9%.
Anthropic studied its own workforce. By August, the agents employees direct logged 6x their hours, code per engineer hit 5x its old pace, and the junior share of technical hires collapsed. The new bottleneck: human attention.
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