"I continue to believe that humans plus AI together actually create more meaningful work, more challenging work, more interesting work, high-productivity jobs," Amodei added. "And then I think it will also open the aperture to a lot of access and opportunity for many people." That doesn't mean the future employment landscape will require a technical background. Indeed, the release of Anthropic's latest AI-coding tools sparked a massive selloff among tech stocks this past week as the technical expertise needed to write and maintain code is expected to fall sharply.
We all came from, I mean, pretty humble beginnings. At a certain point you realize, like, hey, you know, we're selling tickets, we're doing well, the ship's not sinking. What can we do to make people's lives better?
"The bar to coding is now lower than it ever has been," Ng said in a talk at Snowflake's "Build" conference on Monday. "People that code, be it CEOs and marketers, recruiters, not just software engineers, will really get more done than ones that don't."