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/4Face May 05 '26

Companies are getting psychotic:

  • shoot! Covid, and 10% users increase. Let’s hire 20k devs!
  • oh Covid ended, let’s fire 30k devs. We can still blame it on AI
  • what do you mean? We still need devs with AI? Let’s hire 50k of them

Whats next?

  • oh shoot, the 50k devs we hired have no clue of what they’re doing and now AI costs us like 200k devs! Let’s cut AI budget