Anthropic CFO says AI now writes 90% of its code, changing white-collar jobs from execution to oversight

Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said AI is collapsing hours of office work into minutes and changing what employees actually do all day. Bloomberg/Getty Images

Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said AI has reshaped Anthropic's white-collar work environment.

Execution roles turned into supervisors of AI, requiring higher "talent density" across the company.

Anthropic's AI, Claude, now writes 90% of the company's code and handles most of its finance work.

Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao says AI now writes 90% of the company's code — and it's changing what white-collar workers do all day.

Rao, on an episode of Patrick O'Shaughnessy's "Invest Like the Best" podcast published Wednesday, described a workplace inside Anthropic where AI systems increasingly handle the execution layer of knowledge work — from software engineering to financial reporting — while humans shift toward oversight, judgment, and strategy.

"We've hired…