""This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over," Dahl wrote. "Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.""
"Dahl's comments come amid rapid advances in AI tools that can generate, debug, and optimise code with minimal human input. Products such as GitHub Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic's Claude Code are increasingly used by developers to automate routine programming tasks, shifting human effort toward system design, problem definition, and oversight."
"Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, also believes that automation of software coding may be closer than many expect, with AI systems poised to take over most end-to-end programming work within the next year."
""I have engineers within Anthropic who say, 'I don't write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code. I edit it, I do the things around it,'" Amodei said."
The era of humans manually writing software code is ending; software engineers will remain important but will no longer primarily write syntax. Rapid advances in AI tools can generate, debug, and optimise code with minimal human input, with products such as GitHub Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic's Claude Code automating routine programming tasks. Human effort is shifting toward system design, problem definition, oversight, and editing model outputs. An emerging feedback loop uses AI coding systems and AI research to build the next generation of models, accelerating automation. Physical constraints like chip manufacturing and model training time limit full automation of every task.
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