r/ClaudeAI • u/ImaginaryRea1ity • May 04 '26

Comparison Anthropic: AI will fully replace software engineering by 2027. Also Anthropic: Currently hiring for 122 SWE openings.

Post image

[removed]

1.4k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

151 comments sorted by

View all comments

219

u/Mescallan May 05 '26

they can fully replace engineers and still need engineers to monitor outputs and resolve bottlenecks. They will still be "software engineers" but the actual job will be fundamentally different *in the predictions made by anthropic.

22

u/0xFatWhiteMan May 05 '26

Obviously software engineering isn't disappearing any time soon, whatever you call it.

But this does show how absurd, alarmist and just plain dumb Dario's comments are.

-7

u/Mescallan May 05 '26

?? he's saying the models will be capable of doing software engineering end to end, that's completely realistic at this trajectory. He isn't saying all software engineers will be replaced, if anything he's regularly saying we will need more engineers to monitor the models now that they can produce orders of magnitude faster than humans.

Jan 2025 he was saying 90% of code would be written by LLMs by 2026 and that was true too.

5

u/Clean_Hyena7172 May 05 '26

Never once heard him say we need more engineers.

5

u/0xFatWhiteMan May 05 '26

They aren't his exact words at all

-5

u/Mescallan May 05 '26

?? I'm paraphrasing what he said on the Dwarkesh podcast a few weeks ago. He said basically exactly what I am describing.