Anthropic Shifts from Prompts to Overnight-Running Agents
Source: The Creator Economy
Anthropic is moving Claude from a reactive tool to an autonomous agent architecture that performs multi-step work asynchronously. This is the point where AI becomes a background service rather than a chatbot. It requires solving hard problems around cost control, error recovery, and trust in unattended execution—which explains why the industry remains in early innings despite two years of agent hype. By betting its product roadmap on this shift, Anthropic signals that the next defensible moat isn't model capability alone, but the infrastructure to let AI work independently at scale.