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People in a company of agents

Employment at Anthropic · Alexander Polomodov

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  1. 1. People in a company of agents

    Employment at Anthropic · Alexander Polomodov

  2. 2. What improved for people?

  3. 3. Continuing the human-centered view

  4. 4. Activity needs an outcome check

  5. 5. Different data answer different questions

  6. 6. Observation does not establish cause

  7. 7. Agent hours exceed human hours

  8. 8. Output rises across job functions

  9. 9. Adoption is aligned to an event

  10. 10. Engineers add more code after adoption

  11. 11. Growth may precede adoption

  12. 12. Quality proxies cover some consequences

  13. 13. Sales are closer to business outcomes

  14. 14. Junior share of technical hiring declines

  15. 15. Higher AI-task complexity, slower junior headcount growth

  16. 16. 424 hours estimates potential reading

  17. 17. Managing agents becomes work of its own

  18. 18. Human coordination remains

  19. 19. Agents add a communication layer

  20. 20. Agents need the current decision

  21. 21. Technical hiring notes emphasize autonomy

  22. 22. Design the loop, not every response

  23. 23. Attention per accepted outcome

  24. 24. Where does judgment come from?

  25. 25. Who shares the gains from automation?

  26. 26. Redeployment needs a real next role

  27. 27. One workflow to test your assumptions

  28. 28. Productivity includes people’s future