AI agents can now autonomously complete complex projects in hours, raising concerns about massive disruption to knowledge work and employment.

The rise of agentic AI systems marks a critical inflection point in technological competition, with Anthropic's Claude Code and Chinese startups leading breakthroughs in autonomous coding and multi-agent collaboration that compress development cycles dramatically.

Anthropic's Claude Code enables non-technical users to create software through conversational prompts, reshaping coding landscape.