How Anthropic’s agents work 6× more than humans

Now Shipping: A Mind the Product podcast · Oct 21, 2026 · 18m · transcript

Six agent hours for every human hour. Seventeen engineers for every product manager. What happens when an AI company turns its own technology on the way it works?

This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito breaks down Anthropic’s research into how Claude is changing its workforce, from hiring fewer junior technical employees to giving people their own teams of agents.

But more output brings new demands. Agents wait for human input, employees spend more time in meetings, and reviewing everything AI produces becomes a job in itself. Mike compares Anthropic’s findings with research discussed in…