Anthropic says Claude now does 26% of its R&D, with 30,000 agents running internally
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-23
Anthropic discloses that Claude now contributes to 26% of the company's R&D work, up from under 1% in February.
It runs roughly 30,000 agents internally; about 100,000 records get flagged for review weekly, with only around 50 escalated to humans. The author notes how hard it is to imagine monitoring 30,000 agents when one is hard enough to babysit.
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