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How many months has it been since we were told there would be zero software engineers left in the world in 12 months?
What Dario Amodei said 12 months ago is that AI would be "writing essentially all of the code", and the job of software engineers would become guiding and reviewing the code generation process. That's come true at a number of companies. The important context I think people may miss is, this does not require AI to be 10x or 5x or even 1x as good as a human programmer. Claude is worse than me in meaningful ways at the…
A rent seeking mega corp that stopped writing real software over a decade ago you could literally force all your employees to use LLMs, but there is no value add for serious companies trying to solve real problems with programming.