Anthropic staff now spend their days babysitting the bots. The bots are winning on hours.

Anthropic just released a report about what working at an AI company actually looks like now, and the answer is: meetings, mostly, and watching Claude do things.

By August, AI agents at Anthropic were logging six hours for every one hour worked by a human. AI agent hours first overtook human hours in March. Software engineers are committing code five times as often as they were six months ago. All of this sounds impressive until you read the sentence that explains what the humans are doing instead: waiting to be asked something by a bot.

Eighty percent of elapsed time in Claude sessions was the agent waiting on a human response. Anthropic's own framing is that human attention has become the bottleneck. One employee described managing their agents as "an army of Claudes, with every one asking for my attention." The share of sessions spent on this kind of supervisory meta-work has risen from 10% to 22% in a year.

There is also a quieter finding, buried further down. The share of junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9% since early 2025. The entry-level job, it turns out, is the first thing the agents are actually good enough to eat.

For young people watching this from outside, that is not an abstract concern.