Happy Wednesday, Lattice Community!
We’ll dissect big stories in AI this week, provide insights to keep you informed in your industry, and share updates on the work we’re doing at Lattice Partners. We’re an AI implementation company that helps businesses with AI strategy and custom solutions.
This week’s TL;DR:
• To no one’s surprise, Anthropic is hiring far fewer junior tech workers.
• The public may actually get richer from AI labs trying to one-up each other!
• Robots are learning to fold laundry so that you might not have to.
• In the few minutes you took to read this newsletter, you could have built an app!
If you know someone graduating in 2027, their odds of landing a job at Anthropic just got slimmer.
As agents take over work at Anthropic, fewer junior workers are needed. Since early 2025, hiring for junior roles went from 27% of Anthropic’s technical hires to just 9%. It’s important to note that hiring for technical people as a whole still grew, but the percentage of young professionals in that mix dropped.
Takeaways
1. So do humans even need to be part of the workforce at Anthropic?
Yes, but the job has changed. By March 2026, Anthropic’s AI agents had logged more total hours than its employees. Human attention is now necessary for setting up the oversight and checking the work that agents hand back.
2. Your judgment is your superpower!
Now that agents can do the busywork, job interviewers want to know how you would discern between outsourcing certain work to AI versus what work still deserves human attention and perspective. They’re hiring for your taste, autonomy and ability to make good calls.
3. Why you should care
You don’t need to worry just yet in your industry, but it’s important to stay ahead. Anthropic’s chief economist believes the company is about a year and a half ahead of most workplaces, so changes at Anthropic could be a preview for the rest of us.
The AI giving wars have begun, and we, the people, might win.
Anthropic announced plans to allocate 5% of its shares into a new Public Benefit Fund, pending shareholder approval. Whenever the company’s value grows another 50% past a set starting point, the board can add another 2%.
Elon Musk directly replied on X that Anthropic should just give their shares directly to the public, since that’s what he plans to do. He said he’ll give “one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” starting next year.
Takeaways
1. Competition is usually good for us at home!
With AI labs competing on models every week, AI is rapidly becoming cheaper and more accessible to us. Amidst much public angst about AI labs accumulating too much wealth, the AI giving wars could actually help the regular person.
2. We see you, Anthropic…
Let’s remember that Anthropic is reportedly heading to a November IPO, so pooling shares in a fund for public-benefit causes could only help its image right now. I mean… hey, who doesn’t love a bit of good press?
3. Let’s do the math.
The U.S. has a little over 72 million people under 18 years old. Using SpaceX’s Tuesday closing price of $147.79, at one share each is about $10.6 billion. Believe it or not, for Elon, that’s only about 1.5% of his stake in SpaceX… must be nice!
I never thought I’d let a robot into my home… but if it can do my laundry?! Never say never.
Companies like Objectways are paying people in India to film themselves folding towels, unpacking bags, and yes, doing laundry, so AI developers can teach robots how to do the housework themselves.
Objectways says most of its clients are in the US, so it also pays Americans to film their housework for robots to learn how American households run.
Takeaways
1. AI learns from all of us, no matter what your job is.
Although AI can gradually replace office workers and shop floor workers, the robotics research efforts and recordings are creating jobs for those who opt into being filmed.
2. If a robot is learning from me, I’d like to know what I’m being filmed for!
At one textile factory, workers wear GoPros and smart glasses that record their hand movements as they work, so robots can learn the job… makes you wonder if Meta or Google had this use case in mind when designing smart glasses.
And a 40-year-old worker says no one informed her what the footage was for. Crazy!
3. So how far out are we from robots operating in our homes?
Easy, tiger. Although thousands of people in India picked up this work over the past year, an Objectways employee thinks home robots could go on sale there within the next few years. Until then, sorry, you’re still folding your own laundry.
We dive into more topics on the Lattice Partners podcast, the AI Playbook, linked here.
Something you can use
Skip the app store! Build your own mini app for your next event or project.
1. Go to Claude. Describe what you need in plain English.
2. Give it your details or context, like a link, a spreadsheet or a list of stops.
3. Go back and forth with Claude to refine the output to your liking.
4. Publish it (Claude calls these ‘artifacts’) and share the link for anyone to access.
It’s never been easier to design your own simple solution for any creative idea you have. What would you build?
This week at Lattice Partners
We’re building apps left and right. This week, each of our founders built fun, but useful tools to solve a problem within minutes.
Christian - He wanted an easy way to track new leads at FABTECH. It took him two prompts in Lovable to build an app that lets him snap a photo of someone’s badge, then saves their name and company with room for notes. It saves it into a database and has a Google sign-in, so only our team has access.
Colin - One of our clients was wasting fuel driving between appointments, so within minutes Colin had Claude build an interactive map showing the most fuel-efficient route and where to stay overnight.
Martin - When we meet clients at FABTECH, we want them to easily find our booth. Martin built a 3D map of the FABTECH floor with turn-by-turn directions to our booth using a few prompts in Claude and pasting in the FABTECH site link.
VEGAS BABY!
Colin, Martin, Christian and Niall are at FABTECH in this literal moment. Enjoy this photo of their lovely (we’ll pretend there was no traffic) commute from Los Angeles to Sin City!
See you next Wednesday!
Cheers,
Lattice Partners
