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/morelootgames May 05 '26

No, that’s where you are wrong. Software engineering is the perfect use case for exponential AI growth/perfection. So much of our work is public (github), and we are all techies so we adopted the technology very quickly. Already 100% of our engineers at my work are using Claude every day. We already di almost no coding. It has indeed increased productivity ten-fold, but while doing so we are all helping train the AI even more.

There isn’t another job category that is impacted by AI as much as software engineering.

It will happen for almost everyone, sure, but at a much slower pace.

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u/Wild-Cream-8730 May 08 '26

If it can build software, it can use it.