Why Everyone at Anthropic and OpenAI Is Just “Technical Staff” — and What It Means for Your Job

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TL;DR: Anthropic pays its MTS employees $300K–$530K/year. Andrej Karpathy, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, and Workday CTO Peter Bailis all share this single title. At Anthropic and OpenAI, titles like "VP" and "Director" simply don't exist. This isn't Silicon Valley flat-org theater — it's what happens when AI absorbs the three functions that defined middle management for 200 years: task allocation, quality checking, and information relay. What survives isn't a "manager" role. It's three higher-order capabilities AI can't touch: defining what "good" looks like (taste), deciding which direction to go (judgment), and knowing when to stop (courage). The organization is transforming from a pyramid into a network where AI handles coordination and humans handle conviction.

This content originally appeared on HackerNoon and was authored by monica