This acceleration makes human attention the bottleneck for agent output. Even among non-technical employees, reading all the output of their Claude agents would take half their work week. In response, employees turn to “meta-work,” of building visibility tools and monitoring agent pipelines.

— Nathan Wilmers, Regina Catipon, Maxim Massenkoff, and Peter McCrory, How employment is changing at Anthropic, October 16, 2026.