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Startup news
Anthropic's junior technical hiring falls from 27% to 9%
The company's own report says agents now log six times the hours its people do, and sit idle 80% of the time waiting for a human to reply. The bottleneck has moved, and it is you.
№ 330 · 20 October 2026
Working practice
Six founders kept the four-day week: what they changed
Cutting a day does not cut the work. The operators who stuck with it rewrote their meetings, their sign-off rules and their cover rotas first.
№ 320 · 12 October 2026
Founder practice
Zapier's CEO says AI agents save him two hours a day
Wade Foster has handed his briefings, his email drafts and part of his hiring process to software. The claimed return is two hours daily, on his own account.
№ 197 · 7 September 2026
Founder tips
How one consultant cut 20 hours of weekly admin with Claude
Grace Clarke says she now runs her service business on tools she built herself: an hourly pipeline, a proposal maker and a replacement inbox. The method is copyable; the price tag is not stated.
№ 57 · 11 August 2026