Anthropic Reveals AI Productivity And Workforce Impacts

Anthropic released its fourth Economic Index analyzing two million Claude.ai and API conversations, reporting that senior engineers gain the largest productivity boosts and that AI succeeds more when workflows are redesigned. The report introduces an "effective AI coverage" metric (time-weighted by success rates), finds deskilling rather than outright job loss, and revises productivity gains to 1.2 percentage points for Claude.ai and 1.0 for the API.