I joined dev.to a few days ago because I'd run out of paths to argue this stuff against. Months of building a framework — operator discipline as an orthogonal axis to autonomy, locked decisions with status fields, drift detection, supersession trails — and the only thing I was sure of was that internal coherence isn't proof of anything. Frameworks survive by surviving other people, not by surviving the author.
So I started publishing. Today the framework finally hit something outside my own head.
What Anthropic measured
On June 16, Anthropic Economic Research published "Agentic coding and persistent returns to expertise." About 400,000 interactive Claude Code sessions. About 235,000 people. October 2025 to April 2026. Expertise patterns, delegation patterns, success patterns.
The central finding, in their own words:
