Anthropic shipped 10 AI agents for finance today.
Pitchbooks. Comps. KYC. Earnings reviews. Month-end close. Valuation checks.
The exact tasks finance LinkedIn has been bragging about for a decade. All of it. Templated. Free.
Here's what nobody is saying out loud.
The flex worked for ten years because nobody outside finance could see how mechanical the work was. The asymmetry is gone. The audience now has the same templates an analyst spent their twenties pretending were hard.
The analyst pyramid wasn't built on talent. It was built on cheap labor doing expensive-looking work.
The pyramid is dying. The craft isn't.
The people who spent their careers learning to think about cycles, about thesis, about why a number is wrong before they can prove it, are about to have the best decade of their lives.
The people who built identities on the assembly work are reading their own obituaries today.