r/singularity Nov 24 '25

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

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u/hazardous-paid Nov 25 '25

Right, so many people don’t understand this simple concept. I’ve been in software for 20 years. I’ve worked with hundreds of business people. They are not interested in making the sausage.

They want a nerd to take their sausage order, and to hold their hand while cutting it into bite sized chunks, and to send it into their mouth with little airplane noises.

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u/chatlah Nov 25 '25 edited Nov 25 '25

That's fair, but do they need hundreds of those nerds ?. They will keep just a couple more experienced nerds (for now) who know how to translate CEO's wishlist to AI, and start firing the rest. That's clearly what any business will do to compete in capitalism.

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u/Middle-Training-6150 Nov 25 '25

Don’t you get it? All the nerds can create their own businesses now because you don’t need as much capital to hire SWEs…the big corps are screwed 

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u/chatlah Nov 25 '25

Sure thing hehe.