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  "abstract": "Anthropic's How employment is changing at Anthropic (16 Oct 2026; https://www.anthropic.com/research/employment-at-anthropic) reports that by August interactive agent hours outnumbered employee hours six to one, and that interactive sessions sit around 80% idle. This note applies the report's definitions to one operator's local Claude Code and Codex transcripts. Across 9 full weeks the operator ran 4.0 interactive plus subagent agent hours per human hour, with 90% interactive idle share; headless runs were 6% of all agent hours. The four busiest weeks reach 5.0 to 6.8 : 1. Leverage runs 3.0 to 5.5 depending on whether subagents are counted and how human hours are measured. The escape rate of accepted agent output is not computed. One operator, two tools, 9 full weeks. The census script (standard-library Python; reads only; never prints prompt text) and every cited log are in the supplementary zip. The census script and this text were drafted with AI assistance (Claude Opus 5.5), and every figure was independently re-run before release.",
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      "name": "Jared Condon"
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  "published": "2026-10-22",
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  "title": "One operator, by Anthropic's definitions: an agent-hours census",
  "title_text": "One operator, by Anthropic's definitions: an agent-hours census",
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