Dario Amodei · Anthropic · AI Agent · Claude · Claude Code · Federal Reserve (FED) · The Guardian Technology
Experts cast doubt on Anthropic report detailing how AI has altered work at the company
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Last year, the Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and that in six months it would be writing 90% of code.
Key facts
- It also says since March 2025, soon after the release of its agentic AI coding tool Claude Code, entry-level technical hires dropped from nearly 30% to 9%, and headcount dropped from about 21% to 14%
- Considering Anthropic’s slowing revenue growth, investors now project a valuation of $1.5tn, down from earlier estimates of $2tn or more
- Morgan Frank, a Case Western Reserve University researcher on how AI and technological changes affect workers, recently posted a paper that’s in peer review showing that AI-exposed job markets
- From May 2026 onwards, AI agents logged more work hours than human employees, the report said
Summary
Now, in a report Anthropic published on Thursday, the company said it was hiring fewer junior technical workers and that human attention has become the new “bottleneck” as it increasingly relies on its Claude AI agents. Anthropic says AI has changed the way work gets done, and as a result, restructured employment at the company. “As AI diffuses and improves, the organization of work could shift,” Anthropic’s report reads before offering a potential future. In its report, Anthropic touts its “deep adoption of AI”, which it claims resulted in “producing more code per person, closing more sales per rep, and processing more contracts”.