Anthropic report: 48% of Claude Code research sessions were data analysis, 2% idea generation

·2026.11.06 19:38

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A survey of 528 scientists ranked idea generation as the most important research task, despite it accounting for only 2.1% of Claude Code sessions.

Anthropic analyzed 207,049 research sessions from consumer plans between 2 August and 30 September, releasing the report on 5 November.
In Claude Code, 48.1% of sessions were data analysis and 2.1% were idea or hypothesis generation; for Claude Chat and Cowork, these figures were 33.7% and 4.2% respectively.
A separate survey of 528 scientists in life and health sciences ranked generating ideas as the most important part of producing significant research, ahead of data gathering or analysis.
The report notes that idea generation may be undercounted because it is often embedded within other tasks and estimates it consumes 7.1% of researchers' time.

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