Is Software Engineering Finally Dead?
A couple weeks ago, Boris Cherny - the creator of Claude Code - went on a couple podcasts and said "coding is practically solved" and the Anthropic CEO (Dario Amodei) said that the software engineer role will go extinct this year. Fortune ran a headline: "Software engineers may not exist by year end." That was the last straw for me. Because every six months, like clockwork, someone new makes this claim. Jensen Huang said nobody should learn to code. Dario Amodei predicted AI would write 90% of code by September 2025 - six months later it didn't happen, so he made the same prediction again later. But I'm not here to say AI coding is useless - far from it. I use AI coding assistants every single day, and they legitimately 10x my productivity. The truth lives in the gray area, and that's what I cover in this video. Software engineering isn't dying, but it is certainly transforming. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - If you want to learn how to build reliable and repeatable systems for AI coding, check out the Dynamous Community and Agentic Coding Course: https://dynamous.ai/agentic-coding-course ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All sources for this video, categorized: — Boris Cherny / Claude Code — Fortune - "100% of Code at Anthropic Is Now AI-Written": https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-code-at-anthropic-and-openai-is-now-ai-written-boris-cherny-roon/ Boris Cherny X Post - Claude Code Workflow (5 Parallel Instances): https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177 Boris Cherny on YC Lightcone Podcast: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/NJ-inside-claude-code-with-its-creator-boris-cherny Boris Cherny on Lenny's Podcast: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/head-of-claude-code-what-happens Fortune - "Software Engineers May Not Exist by Year End": https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/will-claude-destroy-software-engineer-coding-jobs-creator-says-printing-press/ Futurism - "Last Year Software Engineers Are Employable": https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-code-anthropic-labor Boris Cherny Clarification - "Great Engineers Are More Important Than Ever" (on X as well): https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/14/boris/ — The Prediction Timeline — Jensen Huang - "Nobody Has to Program" (Feb 2024): https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jensen-huang-advises-against-learning-to-code-leave-it-up-to-ai Matt Garman (AWS CEO) - "Most Developers Not Coding" in 24 Months: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/amazon-web-services-ceo-ai-will-code-for-software-engineers/478800 Dario Amodei - "90% of Code AI-Written in 3-6 Months" (Mar 2025): https://futurism.com/six-months-anthropic-coding Sam Altman - "Maybe We Do Need Less Software Engineers" (Mar 2025): https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/sam-altman-mastering-ai-tools-is-the-new-learn-to-code/488885 Dario Amodei (Again) - "6-12 Months from AI Doing Most of What SWEs Do" (Jan 2026): https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-ceo-says-software-engineers-could-be-replaced-in-months/502087 Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft AI CEO) - "White Collar Tasks Automated in 12-18 Months": https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-all-white-collar-tasks-automated Futurism - "Exactly Six Months Ago, Anthropic Said AI Would Write 90% of Code": https://futurism.com/six-months-anthropic-coding — Follow the Money — Jensen Huang Net Worth ($3B → $164B): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang Anthropic Valuation ($61.5B → $380B, $30B Series G): https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation Dario Amodei Net Worth Nearly Doubled to $7B: https://www.storyboard18.com/brand-makers/who-is-dario-amodei-net-worth-jumps-to-7-billion-as-anthropics-valuation-hits-380-billion-90705.htm OpenAI $730B Valuation ($110B Raise): https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds-in-history/ — Enterprise Reality Check — Jellyfish - 90% of Engineering Orgs Adopted AI Tools: https://jellyfish.co/blog/2025-ai-metrics-in-review/ Jellyfish - Leadership Perception Gap (76% Execs vs 52% Engineers): https://jellyfish.co/newsroom/jellyfish-releases-2024-state-of-engineering-management-report/ Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey (84% Adoption, 33% Trust): https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai/ Opsera - 21% of AI Coding Licenses Go Unused: https://opsera.ai/resources/report/ai-coding-impact-2025-benchmark-report/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 0:00 The "Death of Coding" Narrative 1:59 Why Software Engineering Won't Die 4:21 Financial Bias in AI Tech Leadership 5:47 My Personal AI Workflow 8:02 The Evolution to Intent Engineering 11:34 Challenges in Enterprise Adoption 13:31 AI Usage Data and Statistics 15:23 How to Thrive with AI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos weekly - at least every Wednesday at 7:00 PM CDT!
