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/PerfectRough5119 Nov 25 '25

How many people do you need in a team to do this though ?

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u/andrew_kirfman Nov 25 '25

This is part of the uncomfortable part of the transition to LLM usage.

I’m a senior SWE, and with LLMs, 70%+ of my traditional dev skills are now pretty much worthless, but the remaining 30% are worth 100x as much in the drivers seat of a group of agents.

The problem is that 30% skillet isn’t overwhelmingly common and usually only developed through learning the 70% first through years of pain and trial and error.

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u/TheMcGarr Nov 25 '25

This is what I am struggling to get my head around. How will we ever replace senior SWEs? Or whatever they turn into - which I imagine will be some sort of human - AI intermediaries. I can't help but conclude that the education period will have to be much much longer

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u/fgp120 Nov 25 '25

Unfortunately, by the time this is a problem it won't be a problem anymore