
Continuing Developer Productivity for HumansResearch Insights Made Simple
People in a company of agents
Employment at Anthropic · Alexander Polomodov
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1. People in a company of agents
Employment at Anthropic · Alexander Polomodov
2. What improved for people?
3. Continuing the human-centered view
4. Activity needs an outcome check
5. Different data answer different questions
6. Observation does not establish cause
7. Agent hours exceed human hours
8. Output rises across job functions
9. Adoption is aligned to an event
10. Engineers add more code after adoption
11. Growth may precede adoption
12. Quality proxies cover some consequences
13. Sales are closer to business outcomes
14. Junior share of technical hiring declines
15. Higher AI-task complexity, slower junior headcount growth
16. 424 hours estimates potential reading
17. Managing agents becomes work of its own
18. Human coordination remains
19. Agents add a communication layer
20. Agents need the current decision
21. Technical hiring notes emphasize autonomy
22. Design the loop, not every response
23. Attention per accepted outcome
24. Where does judgment come from?
25. Who shares the gains from automation?
26. Redeployment needs a real next role
27. One workflow to test your assumptions
28. Productivity includes people’s future