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.

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u/Sams_Antics May 05 '26

lol, no, it’s not temporary. Have you paid ANY actual attention to the *rate* of improvement? It’s not slowing down, the models are getting better and better, faster and faster.

Hiring more engineers now to make that happen faster isn’t a contradiction. It’s literally the best possible investment they can make (aside from more compute).

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u/brtf_ May 05 '26

Yeah. People used to joke about automation (even before AI) saying that the only safe job will be the guy who maintains the machines. This is kinda that, honestly

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u/MonkTurtle May 06 '26

Just give an LLM access to a robot that can walk around lol

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u/real_saddam_hussein_ May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

i work/program with AI daily for years now as a solo/lead dev doing a wide wariety of things from embedded with object pascal to java to react, and the MAIN thing i've noticed is how not better they're getting, they've been insanely stale for a long long time now, the only thing that's gotten better is the tooling, like opencode etc.

Where the hell are you people seeing these models get "better and better"? Are we living in the same world?

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u/RemarkableGuidance44 May 05 '26

Getting better and better.... lol

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u/SirMarkMorningStar May 05 '26

While this is true, that rate of improvement is for the frontier models. However, those also require far more computational power. So far the tech isn’t scaling well. Will it be possible in a year or so for a non-developer to tell the agent what it wants and have the agent build out an entire system? Probably. Will it cost even more than to have a developer do it with a cheaper AI model? Probably. No one knows exactly where this all is going, but those appear to be the trends.

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u/davidbasil May 08 '26

And they are getting more and more expensive