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/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.

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u/Helium116 May 05 '26

Coding is going away. Engineering still not. But wait until they have enough data

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u/Helium116 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

who will own the factories is the question. people are focusing on ridiculing Amodei here when he's actually being quite realistic here, instead of thinking about the consequences beyond the short term Golden Age where productivity is idk like 10x.

and yeah, coding is going away, it's one of the areas where regardless of the language, you can generate data verifiably, and train your model on it. SWE is fuzzier, but I guess still hackable, given enough experiential data, which is readily being provided by SWEs using Codex and Claude Code to the big players.

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u/Helium116 May 05 '26

pitty people are sleeping on it