Anthropic’s AI-heavy workflow makes human attention the bottleneck
Anthropic’s experience suggests AI-heavy teams need fewer junior technical hires while shifting human work toward judgment, review, and oversight. AI agents now work six hours for every human hour at the company, helping raise code, sales, and contract output, but employees cannot read it all: even non-technical staff would spend half their week reviewing Claude’s work. The result is “meta-work,” building tools to monitor and manage agent output.