r/accelerate • u/Eliv_nurotic • 8h ago

Anthropic is on track to stop hiring technical juniors by 2027

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https://www.anthropic.com/research/employment-at-anthropic

Projection: https://x.com/spicey_lemonade/status/2111535250467905664

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u/Midren 8h ago

why would Anthropic hire junior engineers when they don't have to. They are a destination for any SW Engineer so they can be picky and only grab experienced people

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u/International-Lab944 7h ago

Some junior people are extremely intelligent and driven although they might not yet have much experience. Hiring such people at say age 22 is seldom stupid.

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u/Original-Poet1825 6h ago

22 year olds also have not been jaded by the industry yet lol. Young people ready to change the world is what made silicon valley in the first place

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u/Ok-Theme9419 6h ago

they may not mark 22 year olds as junior either, maybe they are "senior" because of the technical capabilities. who knows how anthropic defines "junior" devs

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u/freqCake 8h ago

Its also as a percentage in this graph, so as the company grows they may just be diluting less with jrs even if the absolute number of jrs is the same. Would have to check other numbers to be sure.

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u/Eliv_nurotic 7h ago

Cheaper 

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u/Fun-Alternative-9791 8h ago

AI will automate everything, AC and all by that time.

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u/Eliv_nurotic 8h ago

Is opus 5.5 not already an automated coder? I’d say even opus 4.5 hit that mark

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u/Rain_On 5h ago

Straight lines are not how this works. We are on an exponential.

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u/Eliv_nurotic 5h ago

I guess we’ll see

!remindme 1 year

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u/skadoodlee 8h ago

Only AI under the guidance of someone stupid would feel comfortable to fit such a trend to these graphs.

Funny how it's also not from the original blog. Some dumb Twitter dude.

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u/Eliv_nurotic 7h ago

!remindme November 2027

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u/WhatNazisAreLike 8h ago

Yeah whoever made those graphs does not understand linear regression.

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u/Entuaka 7h ago

Sure, in january, Dario told that AI will replace software engineers in 6-12 months. 3 months left

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u/Tesl 6h ago

I thought he just said that AI would write all the code by then? In my case that's true already

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u/Entuaka 6h ago

He was talking about the SWE job E2E.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk6P-SsXIzQ

But he said that it could also take a few years. At this point, it should be able to do most knowledge workers jobs E2E, this is 10s of millions of jobs, just in the USA.

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u/tiger_ace 2h ago

he explains more in detail in a dwarkesh podcast.

a SWE's job E2E doesn't only involve writing code but the code part is essentially already completely done

it will be moving forward with the 25% remaining but that could take a few years

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u/Bloated_Plaid 4h ago

Anthropic was hiring juniors???