Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

Why it matters

Anthropic has published an internal report examining how its own workforce and daily work have shifted over the past year, positioning its experience as a possible preview of broader changes in hiring and labor demand driven by AI. The company says it has sharply reduced junior hiring in technical roles, and technical teams now form a smaller share of staff, which it links both to normal business expansion and to coding tools that let non-technical employees build software themselves. Employees credited Claude with productivity gains, and many described their jobs as shifting from doing the work directly to supervising Claude instances, with one engineer likening it to babysitting children competing for attention. The report frames human attention and judgment as a new bottleneck, since Claude generates large volumes of output that people must review and organize. Meeting time has also risen, which Anthropic attributes to the continued need for trust, accountability, and face-to-face coordination. The company reports more code, sales, and contracts per person, while noting it has seen no signs of declining code quality.