Anthropic’s CFO Krishna Rao says more than 90% of the company’s internal code is generated by its agentic AI tool, Claude Code. He adds that the company uses dozens of specialized AI workflows to automate finance and enterprise operations, shrinking tasks that used to take hours—like revenue and compute utilization reporting—into roughly 30 minutes. Even then, AI typically produces 90–95% of outputs before human review, allowing employees to focus on judgment, strategy, and oversight while hiring accelerates.
A Seattle data scientist resigned after her company cut 40% of staff, despite being offered a 75% pay hike. She said her discomfort was rooted in “survivor’s guilt” and challenged the firm’s AI-driven productivity claims. The move ignited debate online about integrity, employee value, and whether companies reward loyalty or performance in layoffs’ aftermath.
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