A16z partner says software engineers spent decades disrupting industries. Now, they're the 'disrupted.'

""What it means to be a software engineer is changing pretty fundamentally," Casado said on the "Uncapped" podcast."

""It's kind of fun to actually be the disrupted for a change," he said."

""We disrupted everything, right?" Casado said of software engineers. "We disrupted the back office. We disrupted hotels. We disrupted everything.""

""the first time I would say that we're probably getting legitimately disrupted as a discipline.""

AI-driven code editors and vibe-coding tools are transforming software development and changing what it means to be a software engineer. Martin Casado, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz who leads the firm's $1.25 billion infrastructure practice and invested in Cursor, highlights widespread adoption of tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Replit. Google and Meta leaders report a growing share of AI-written code. The discipline faces substantive disruption as AI automates substantial portions of coding work, reshaping workflows, required skills, and employment dynamics while provoking enthusiasm about the reversal of past industry disruption.

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