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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "Software is going to become cheap. Maybe essentially free." In a 32-minute Davos interview, he says the thing software companies don't want to hear. When the tool costs nothing, the money goes to whoever knows how to wield it. That skill, not the software, is... show more

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138,027 views • 6 months ago

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Dario Amodei just told software engineers exactly how long they have. Six to twelve months. Amodei: “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.” The people building the most powerful AI in history have already stopped writing code. That is not a forecast. That is the current working condition inside the lab closest to the frontier. Amodei: “We might be six to 12 months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all, of what SWEs do end-to-end.” The tech industry spent a decade making software engineers its highest-paid, most protected class. That era has a last day now. When a model can execute an entire software build end-to-end, the ability to write syntax stops being a skill. It becomes a credential for a job that no longer exists. Amodei: “And then it’s a question of how fast does that loop close.” That is the sentence everyone skipped. The code was never the hard part. The hard part was everything around it. The model just learned everything around it. Writing the code is already nearly gone. Testing is next. Deployment is next. When all three collapse into a single autonomous execution loop, the machine no longer needs a human in the chain at all. The corporation or sovereign state that closes that loop first does not gain a competitive advantage. It gains a category of speed that biological engineers cannot match, track, or reverse. That is not disruption. That is replacement at a systems level. Amodei is not describing a future disruption. He is describing the current state of his own building. The loop is already closing. The only question is whether you are inside it or outside it when it seals.

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Jensen Huang says we’ve passed the point of no return. “Software is not just a tool. Now software uses tools.” For the first time, intelligence is generated in real time as tokens. Now that it’s profitable, the only option is to scale. “We just have to make more of it.”

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28,115 views • 6 months ago