Anthropic cofounder says AI is making the value of junior roles 'more dubious,' but boosting demand for senior talent

"Something that we found is that the value of more senior people with really, really well-calibrated intuitions and taste is going up. The company's large language model Claude is already writing comfortably the majority of Anthropic's code, with potential to hit 99% by year-end if development accelerates."

"There are still certain roles where you want to bring in younger people, but an issue that we're staring at is: Wow, the really basic tasks Claude Code or our coding systems can do. What we need is someone with tons of experience."

Anthropic's AI coding tool Claude is already writing the majority of the company's code, with potential to reach 99% by year-end. This shift is reshaping engineering hiring priorities. While Anthropic continues hiring software engineers and has more engineering staff than two years ago, the nature of engineering work is changing. Junior engineers' value is becoming "a bit more dubious" as AI handles basic coding tasks. Senior engineers with well-calibrated intuitions and strong judgment are increasingly valuable as the bottleneck moves up the technical stack. The company still hires junior talent for specific roles, but prioritizes experienced engineers who can guide AI systems and handle complex decision-making.

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