How employment is changing at Anthropic

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• Hacker News
• it just says same things everyone knows entry level job gone , ai does everything , agentic infra nothing new to take from here
  by vinitjain24
• Authors of this article: Nathan Wilmers, Regina Catipon, Maxim Massenkoff, Peter McCrory

  I'm too lazy to bother looking up each of their credentials. Are any of them software engineers? Do they know anything about creating, maintaining, and evolving software?

  I do know that Anthropic's CEO isn't a software engineer, so it would be hard for him to evaluate their claims with any deep insight from experience.

  by andsoitis
• One should keep in mind that whatever anthropic discovers there is a discovery made by a company with an infinite cash and hype faucet.

  So while some stuff may transfer over as a general thing, a lot will probably not.

  Still interesting, of course, but to be consumed with a mountain of salt.

  by hypfer
• As obvious as it seems to say, with no new juniors there will be no new seniors.
  by OuterVale
• “Junior” is the wrong distinction to make. I’ve recently worked with senior engineers who are terrible at wielding agents, and recent grad engineers who multiple themselves 100x. The main way I look for software engineers now are:

  - Deep curiosity and ability to absorb new information quickly - Evidence of ability to wield and coordinate agents to the max - Ability to clearly communicate ideas

  You have these skills, you can conquer the software world.

  by Jackobrien
• Loathe this company and everything they put out.
  by regexorcist
• The issue with this kind of report is that you inevitably end up thinking "They would say that, would they".

  There simply is no way to separate what’s reporting and what’s advertising.

  by pyrale
• This just can't be sustainable. Ever increasing agent activity can only move to the point where it's literally impossible for humans to have a collective awareness of how the systems that support our lives actually work. How does anyone think this is going to end well? If as humans we loose control of vital systems, when they stop working one day (and they so easily could unless the agents are perfect and 100pct aligned with the general good of humanity (how do we even define that)) we could find ourselves without the ability to run healthcare systems and power grids, that have evolved so much such complexity that no human can intervene to fix them. I do believe that you can create feed back loops where probabilistic agents can be used to create deterministic checks and balances, and solve real problems for good. But it's a wild west at the moment and that is not what's happening in so many companies, and the solutions are not yet on the horizon. Even if the 'agents can handle it' ... where does that leave us? Unable to run our societies without puting everything through frontier LLMs? I just finished a very short story by Ted Chiang - 'The evolution of Human science' it starts at the point where it's 25 years since humans contributed a scientific paper because 'meta humans' now handle all research, and communicate digitally such that humans can only get a low fidelity report of what the agents actually know, and the endeavour to understand has become like a best effort archeological like hobby for interested humans. The story assumes that the 'meta humans' will always act in humans best interests. I believe it's from 2002, it's incredibly precient (The stories of your life and others is the collection the story is in. Many of them are very relevant to modern AI actually).
  by gb2d_hn