The future of work will look something like what Boris is describing. Anthropic is hiring engineers because people who know what they’re doing still have to tell the agents what to do, review their work, and integrate that work into a broader system. This will be true of other types of work as well; we will just move to higher levels of abstraction. It may be hard to imagine how that doesn’t lead to the evaporation of work, but once you consider all the natural limitations of agents it becomes clearer what the roles will look like. Also, as you automate one part of a process you quickly discover the bottlenecks in another part of the process. Many new forms of work will grow simply because another type of work became more efficient and eventually is constrained somewhere else in the system. This is how you can square the idea that more and more of today’s tasks can be automated, yet you still end up needing people to manage all those tasks.