Q&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny on how the title “software engineer” could disappear, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more
Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too.
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- The lead developer of Claude Code hasn't handwritten code in 6 months and believes software engineering as a discipline will disappear. It will be replaced by builders as PMs, designers and managers can use AI to code. — He believes we'll see 100x more builders than we saw software engineers. … @carnage4life@mas.to · Dare Obasanjo
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@caseynewton
Casey Newton
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I talked to @bcherny.bsky.social about the end of software engineering as we know it — and why AI may be responsible for more job creation than destruction www.platformer.news/boris-cherny... [image]
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@tomsteyer
Tom Steyer
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Pope Leo is right: The AI era demands moral clarity and urgent action from leaders everywhere. We can't allow AI to be a technology that turns billionaires into trillionaires while putting millions out of work. Read my plan here: https://tomsteyer.com/...
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@stevenlevy
Steven Levy
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The recent AI agent breakthrough is just as big a bang as ChatGPT. Only techies realize this now but eventually no one will be able to ignore it. My report from inside this huge shift. www.wired.com/story/how-ai...
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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The lead developer of Claude Code hasn't handwritten code in 6 months and believes software engineering as a discipline will disappear. It will be replaced by builders as PMs, designers and managers can use AI to code. — He believes we'll see 100x more builders than we saw sof…