Anthropic reports that junior employees’ share of technical-department employment fell from 21% to 14% since early 2025, while junior technical hires’ share fell from 27% to 9%. Aggregate agent hours first exceeded human work hours in March 2026; a separate measure put employee-directed agents at six times their handlers’ hours by August. Anthropic’s findings draw on internal company records and 17 interviews; its coding-agent adoption comparison was observational. A paper on U.S. labor markets reports rising unemployment risk in AI-exposed occupations beginning in early 2022, before ChatGPT’s late-2022 release. Anthropic’s report tracks junior hiring, technical employment and agent hours. A U.S.
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