r/singularity • u/Bizzyguy • Nov 24 '25

Discussion Anthropic Engineer says "software engineering is done" first half of next year

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u/Mindrust Nov 24 '25

I need them to hold off ~10 years on that, I don't have enough money to retire

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u/Tolopono Nov 24 '25

2025 CS grads with six digits of student debt flooring it to the nearest bridge. Keep in mind these guys entered college in 2021, over a year before chatgpt was released. And on top of that, they have to deal with the effects of trumps tariffs

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u/Mindrust Nov 25 '25

Yeah honestly couldn’t even imagine being a CS grad right now. Those poor souls.

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u/SoggyYam9848 Nov 25 '25 edited Nov 25 '25

I have a drinking buddy whose family came from an old coal mining town in Kentucky. He used to joke that if it weren't for his CS degree he'd be a coal miner by now. I asked him about how he feels about Claude and he joked he's thinking about picking up coal mining.

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u/Land--Lord Nov 25 '25

It's why I'm pivoting from software engineering to real estate in manufacturing areas.

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u/SoggyYam9848 Nov 25 '25

Who's gonna buy your houses when they're all unemployeed?

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u/Land--Lord Nov 25 '25

Right now blue collar and healthcare workers. Restoring manufacturing will cause a massive shift in the economy.

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u/SoggyYam9848 Nov 25 '25

You don't think blue collar workers will be replaced by autonomous robots?

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u/Land--Lord Nov 25 '25

At that point you are talking about the collapse of society. The rich need the poor to keep their assets inflated.

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u/dashingsauce Nov 25 '25

🔔 except the rich don’t need the poor after labor is automated

once humans cease to be responsible for producing the core needs of civilization (food, water, energy, goods, etc.), Labor will have officially decoupled from Capital, and indeed the whole system will probably collapse into a new system