# Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow > Source: > Published: 2026-06-26 11:18:07+00:00 # Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow **"Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs junior engineers and warns of an economic shock.** "We're hiring more people with lots and lots of experience than we did before, because the returns on intuition are much greater than before," Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said in an interview with Reason. In the past, experienced researchers needed large teams to run experiments. Now Claude handles that scaling. The result: companies are specifically looking for "senior intuition" and skipping entry-level hires. Clark says this trend will hit the broader economy hard. When AI multiplies the output of top experts but automates entry-level work at the same time, a dangerous paradox emerges. "I sort of expect that AI might yield more extreme scenarios than ones we've had in the past. Like, it might yield far above-trend GDP growth, and that GDP growth might be accompanied by a spike in unemployment that you typically only see during a recession." No government is ready for that, he says. ``` AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now ```