Anthropic published an internal workforce analysis showing junior technical hires dropped from 27% to 9% since early 2025, while per-employee meeting time rose 20% compared with a year ago. In an April 2026 survey, 20% of staff said their job had shifted from doing the work to managing Claudes. The report suggests human attention and judgement are becoming a bottleneck, and the company has found no evidence that code quality is declining despite higher output.
