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OpenAI Is Slowing Hiring. Anthropic's Engineers Stopped Writing Code. Here's Why You Should Care.

In December 2025, AI capabilities crossed a critical threshold through converging model releases (GPT-5.1/5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro) and viral orchestration patterns (Ralph, Gastotown, Claude Code's task system). AI now beats human experts on 75% of well-scoped knowledge tasks and can autonomously code for days, yet a massive 'capability overhang' exists—even Sam Altman admits he hasn't changed his workflow. The lesson: those who learn to manage fleets of parallel AI agents as specifications-writers and reviewers rather than manual coders will gain exponential productivity advantages, while the gap between early adopters and laggards widens dramatically.