Anthropic is hiring fewer and fewer junior staff in technical roles. The share of junior positions among new hires dropped from 27 to 9 percent since early 2025. By August 2026, AI agents across the company were already logging six times as many hours as humans. Researchers warn of a "tragedy of the cognitive commons": if junior positions disappear, experienced specialists will be in short supply down the road. That is, assuming such specialists are even needed anymore. The article Anthropic has nearly stopped hiring junior staff because AI agents now work six times as many hours appeared first on The Decoder.
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The router treats agents, tools and skills as targets in the same catalogue as models. An MCP tool or an A2A agent is one entry; the router picks it when it fits the request and learns from how it performs. The same guard and resource limits apply to a tool's arguments as to a prompt.
For a team that routes through the router, a release like this is one catalogue entry. The new model competes on the next request against what the team already runs, on quality, cost and speed. If it answers well it earns more traffic; if it fails it gets less, with no code change in the app.