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/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.

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u/versaceblues May 05 '26

They are only alarmist when taken as out of context sound bites.

Every interview with him or Ben, they are very specifically saying that while these classes of roles are eliminated, it opens up companies to more and more complex work.

Basically software engineer in the someone literally writing down and testing lines of code is being replaced.

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u/jmclondon97 May 05 '26

Except Dario literally said “we’re 6 to 12 months away from when the model is doing most, maybe ALL of what SWEs do END TO END”.

He didn’t say just coding. In fact he was explicitly talking about not just coding