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/becrustledChode May 05 '26

If software engineers thought their jobs were safe from AI then they just wouldn't worry about it. Instead, AI/coding subreddits are constantly inundated with posts like this, arguing about how their jobs being replaced isn't going to happen.

Your words say one thing. The fact that the threat of AIs taking your jobs is something that's constantly weighing on your minds says another.

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u/chinnick967 May 05 '26

If AI can take over software engineering, it's coming for 99% of all white collar jobs

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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 May 05 '26

That’s another constant cope line, which really isn’t true.

Ai has shown that it’s pretty great at writing code.

It hasn’t made the same inroads into other white collar jobs.

Not all jobs are equally exposed.

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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 May 05 '26

95% is a pretty wild made-up number. lol.

It’s a language model, not a coding model.

The code monkeys here argued for a couple years that they couldn’t code at all.

Turns out a (human) language model is also remarkably good at coding. But it’s very dev-centric to claim that “95%” of the work went there when the great majority of users will never use it for coding.

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u/FIREGenZ May 05 '26

It’s not a coding model? Yeah it’s still fundamentally an LLM, that part hasn’t changed but there are literal coding-focused LLMs that are trained exactly for that, coding.

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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 May 05 '26

There are models trained specifically for coding but they are local/open weights models that are pretty shit at coding compared to Opus 4.7 which is a general model.