Anthropic recently told its growth team to hire more product managers, not fewer, because Claude Code had turned its engineering org into a team that ships at roughly three times its actual headcount, moving the bottleneck from the integrated development environment (IDE) to the people deciding what to build. The article describes a structural shift where the bottleneck in software is no longer typing but deciding what to type. It outlines a compression of the engineer's day through five eras: the Stack Overflow era (2014 to late 2022), where new monthly questions are now down roughly 77% since November 2022; the browser-tab era (late 2022 to 2024); the IDE-native era (2024 to 2025); the spec-driven era (2025 to 2026), where Amazon's Kiro IDE team reportedly compressed feature builds from two weeks to two days and an AWS engineering team described an 18-month rearchitecture originally scoped for 30 engineers completed by 6 people in 76 days; and the routines era (2026), when Anthropic shipped Claude Code Routines: Scheduled, persistent agents that run on a cadence, on a webhook.