Claude Code's creator on the end of the software engineer
Platformer Casey Newton
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, believes the job title "software engineer" could disappear by the end of 2025 as AI tools make coding more accessible to non-engineers. Cherny has not written code himself in six months and predicts that while companies may hire fewer traditional engineers, the total number of people writing code using AI agents could increase 100-fold. The roles of engineers, product managers, designers, and managers are blending together into a broader "builder" category as AI productivity tools become standard.
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