Anthropic: junior share of technical staff fell from 21% to 14% by mid-2026

Anthropic published a study on how AI is reshaping its own workforce: junior workers made up 14% of technical staff by mid-2026, down from 21% in early 2025, and just 9% of new technical hires, down from 27%. Code commits per engineer rose 5.1x, while median meeting time increased 20%.

• Junior share of new technical hires dropped from 27% to 9%
• Code commits per engineer rose 5.1x since late 2025
• Median meeting time across the company increased 20%
• Claude spends about 80% of interactive session time waiting for human input