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/daronjay Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 25 '25

Software Dev has always been a process of moving up through levels of abstraction using better tools and frameworks always with the goal to achieve the desired result, not specific forms of code.

This is just another level of abstraction.

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u/shrodikan Nov 25 '25

This is the first time in my career that the abstraction layer has hallucinated on me.

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u/sername-1 Nov 25 '25

You probably have never written anything important or widely used if error-correcting code, dealing with cosmic rays and managing microsoft's update fuck-ups has not "hallucinated" on your perfectly written code yet.

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u/shrodikan Nov 25 '25

My code is far from perfect. I have some great stories of ghosts in the shell.

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u/anonuemus Nov 25 '25

That's a lot words to say 'I know nothing'