An AI company says it hires far fewer entry-level techs now
Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI assistant, reported that entry-level workers fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires since early 2025. Staff told the company Claude made them more productive, but their work shifted toward supervising AI agents, tools that complete multi-step tasks on their own.
If you're getting into tech, this covers one company's hiring only. Still, it hints that junior roles at AI-heavy firms may center on reviewing and directing AI work, since Anthropic says human attention is now the bottleneck.
Worth reading if you're planning a move into a technical role, mainly for the skills it describes. Skip the panic: this is one AI company reporting on itself, and its numbers do not describe the wider job market.
Your moveRead the report, then check whether postings you want mention reviewing, testing, or managing AI output.
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