AI Now Does 6x More Work Than Humans — Anthropic Slashes Junior Tech Hiring

The AI job shake-up just hit home at one of the biggest AI companies in the world. Anthropic has drastically cut junior tech hiring — junior roles made up just 9% of its hiring in May 2026, down from 27% a year earlier — because its AI agents now work six times as many hours as human employees.

The company says AI adoption increased code output per employee, sales per representative and contract processing speed. Individual employee output rose as workers adopted new AI tools.

This is the clearest signal yet of what the 2026 job market looks like: entry-level tech jobs are shrinking while AI handles the routine work. For job seekers, the message is blunt — learn to work WITH AI tools, because the companies hiring now expect you to.

Tech layoffs have already hit 689,000+ workers across 521 companies this year. The workers surviving the cuts are the ones using AI to multiply their output.