Anthropic\u2019s Economic Index offers a look at how organisations and individuals are actually using large language models. The report contains the company\u2019s analysis of a million consumer interactions on Claude.ai, plus a million enterprise API calls, all dated from November 2025. The report notes that its figures are based on observations, rather than, for example, a sample of business decision-makers or generic survey.<\/p>\n
Limited use cases dominate<\/p>\n
Use of Anthropic\u2019s AI tends to cluster around a relatively small number of tasks, with the ten most frequently-performed tasks accounting for almost a quarter of consumer interactions, and nearly a third of enterprise API traffic. There\u2019s a focus on the use of Claude for code creation and modification, as readers might expect.<\/p>\n
This concentration of use of AI as a software development tool has remained fairly constant over time, suggesting that the model\u2019s value is largely based around these types of tasks, with no emerging use of Claude for other purposes of any empirical significance. This suggests that broad, general rollouts of AI are less likely to be successful than those focused on tasks where large language models are proven to be effective.<\/p>\n
Augmentation outperforms automation<\/p>\n
On consumer platforms, collaborative use \u2013 where users iterate on queries to the AI over the course of a virtual conversation \u2013 is more common than using the AI to produce automated workflows. Enterprise API usage shows the opposite, as businesses attempt to gain savings through automating tasks. However, while Claude succeeds on shorter tasks, the observed quality of outcomes declines the more complex the task (or series of tasks) is, and the longer the required \u2018thinking time\u2019 required.<\/p>\n
This implies automation is most effective for routine, well-defined tasks that are simpler, require fewer logical steps, and where responses to queries can be quick. Tasks estimated to take humans several hours show significantly lower completion rates than shorter tasks. For longer tasks to succeed, users have to iterate and correct outputs.<\/p>\n
Users breaking down large tasks into manageable steps and posing each separately (either interactively or via API) have improved success rates.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s observations show most queries put to the LLMs are associated with white-collar roles (although poorer countries tend to use Claude in academic settings more commonly than, for instance, the US). For example, travel agents can lose complex planning tasks to the LLM and retain elements of their more transactional work, while some roles, such as property managers, show the opposite: routine administrative tasks can be handled by the AI, and tasks needing higher-judgement remain with the human professional..<\/p>\n
Productivity gains lessened by reliability<\/p>\n
The report notes that claims of AI boosting annual labour productivity by 1.8% (over a decade) are likely best to be reduced to 1-1.2%, due to the need to factor in extra labour and costs. While a 1% efficiency gain over a decade is still economically meaningful, the need for activities such as validation, error handling, and reworking will lower success rates and therefore there should be a similar adjustment in the minds of a business\u2019s decision-makers.<\/p>\n
Potential gains to an organisation deploying AI also depend on whether tasks given to the LLM complement or substitute work. In the latter case, the success of substituting an AI for tasks normally done by a human depends on how complex the work is.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s noteworthy that the report finds a near-perfect correlation between the sophistication of users\u2019 prompts to the LLM and successful outcomes. Thus, how people use AI shapes what it delivers.<\/p>\n
Key takeaways for leaders<\/p>\n
AI implementation delivers value fastest in specific, well-defined areas.<\/p>\n
Complementary systems (AI+human) outperform full automation for complex work.<\/p>\n
Reliability and necessary extra work \u2018around\u2019 the AI reduce predicted productivity gains.<\/p>\n
Changes to workforces\u2019 makeup depend on the mix of tasks and their complexity, not specific job roles.<\/p>\n
(Image source: \u201cthe virtual construction worker\u201d by antjeverena is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.)<\/p>\n
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