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October 2026

  • Oct 18 How employment is changing at Anthropic anthropic.com

    What transformations of work and employment can we expect under increasingly powerful AI? Anthropic is worth studying because it has thoroughly molded its workflows around AI. Agents flit through Slack chats and schedule meetings. They autonomously fix bugs and collectively tackle huge engineering projects. Agent hours worked outnumber human hours 6 to 1.

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  • Oct 18 How the Claude Code team does code review / claude.dev Blog claude.dev Blog

    We think “did a human read the code?” is an imprecise proxy for “what could go wrong with this change, and which check—automated or human—is the right one to catch it?”

    Asking that question also changed when review happens. Before, review was a gate at the end of the road: write the code, open a PR, wait for your colleague.

    Now, review runs continuously, more like spellcheck while you write. Most changes have been reviewed and fixed by Claude at least once before a human is asked to look. This catches most routine mistakes, and saves team attention for higher-level questions and scrutiny.

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