‘From actually doing work’ to ‘babysitting Claudes’: Anthropic employees on how their jobs changed in the past year

What’s it really like to work at Anthropic? The AI company made headlines last month when an employee resigned, claiming the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives” and that conversations about an AI-powered doomsday are par for the course among its staff. Now, Anthropic is pulling back the curtain on its own workplace with a new report on the impact of AI adoption at the company. The company says its internal trends “could be a leading indicator of how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy.” If it’s right, that means a world with fewer entry-level jobs, new roadblocks to productivity, and a workforce full of babysitters for AI agents. The babysitters club Anthropic reports that AI is responsible for massive booms in productivity, saying its internal use of Claude tools has led to “producing more code per person, closing more sales per rep, and processing more contracts.” Its AI tools are so productive, in fact, that Anthropic now says human interference is responsible for bottlenecks in productivity. AI agents at the company spend 80% of their session time waiting for human input, rather t…

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