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.show more

You must be a competent at writing code before you can monitor the code from a system that is known to hallucinate.

That’s true right now. The question is how long that window stays open.

Dario Amodei: 'Our engineers don’t write code anymore. The model writes it, they just edit. In 6–12 months the model might do ALL of what SWEs do end-to-end.' So in 2027 the job title changes from Software Engineer → Prompt Janitor Salary: -40% Perks: unlimited coffee & existent

The funny part is the people laughing at this are the ones it’s going to hit hardest.

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Most engineers are panicking about the wrong thing. The skill that matters isn't writing syntax - it's system design, debugging AI output, and knowing when the model is hallucinating. Three things to focus on: 1. Learn to read code you didn't write 2. Build better evals than the model's confidence 3. Understand the deployment pipeline end-to-end The people who survive are the ones who stop thinking of themselves as coders and start thinking of themselves as system architects.

The most important line here: "I edit it, I do the things around it." That's the new job description for engineers. Not writing code — directing it, reviewing it, understanding the system well enough to know when the model gets it wrong. The irony is that this requires deeper engineering knowledge, not less. You can't review what you don't understand. The skill floor is rising, not disappearing.

I am currently having Codex 5.4 write thousands of lines of code for me. I also don't code anymore. Why would I? I can't compete.

The people who admit it first are the ones who figure out what’s next. Use it as a weapon or watch everyone else do exactly that.

Don't I know it. That's why I work with it every second of every day.

I doubt it. Anthropic is doing well, but not that well. 🤣 I wrote some words on this, and the world isn't that bad. People will have to reinvent themselves, or we will unplug AI. Simple as that.

Wasn't he telling people a year ago that within 6-8 months 90% of all code would be written by AI? 🙄 They need to keep that capital rolling into the company to plug the huge loss hole they are running every year ..

by summer

Most people won’t even notice until it’s already done​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

agreed. i'm still shocked by how small our community is. I saw somewhere that 84% of mankind has not used AI yet. extraordinary.

Good fucking riddance

Then if this doesn’t come to fruition he should be forced to step down and give up all of his stock in the company and be broke. These guys have been saying this stuff for 3 years to pump their own stock prices up.

in 12 months nobody writes code then in 2 years nobody reviews it then in 3 years its just hallucinations running hallucinations

even the best senior engineer needs to be challenged by equally skilled or more skilled engineer if not quality drops, even if AI can do end-to-end development it cannot challenge itself, it just recognizes patterns that fit best current task and it is very good at that

Dev role changing real quick

AI is a tool. Period. As it improves it just means the things humans can accomplish will be far and away of what dreamed of. Humans are not being replaced! Humans are being given superpowers. The sooner a person realizes this, the sooner they can stop panicking and start getting excited. Oh, and as a bonus you no longer have to argue with arrogant developers 🤣

Yet they are hiring more software engineers 🤔 If they are as little as 6 months away from an artificial E2E SWE, what is it they are actually hiring for?

Better start thinking in terms of custom tools and AI loops. Future winners won’t just write code, they’ll build the systems that write it for them.

His face is at least as punchable as Scam Altman's

Extremely exciting and tough for many workers at the same time. The train is rolling fill speed ahead and nothing will stop it. Adapt to change or…

Six to twelve months 😮

💯 This is why Dario can play at this level. No consumer hype games. Just real substance and workload. His actual website (no animations, no branding) is the perfect symbol of that. My post on this 👇

No, firstly the no coders, “I can build my own enterprise in minutes” guys … they are gone, thankfully. The ones that remain are actual SWE that can steer an augment AI using their skills to do so, all of us have stopped writing code already but I’m 100% certain even in 6 to 12 months it needs me to engineer the steering it’s just that simple that piece can never ever be removed and you have to be without question an engineer to do so, no coders are toast. SWE are the drivers of this tech, if you disagree then you don’t understand AI. Simple.

"... the machine no longer needs a human in the chain at all." Well, it still needs somebody to give it goals. Those won't be the engineers.

People who claim itnwill replace coders are the ones who did not write a single line of code in their lives

I guess my keyboard is just going to be an expensive paperweight soon

The loop closed faster than even Dario predicted. It's March 2026. Anthropic engineers already weren't writing code in Jan → they're barely reviewing it now. Claude 4 / Opus successors are shipping entire features from Jira tickets with 1–2 human sanity checks.

You see the guy posting is stupid when he puts “testing” before “writing” code. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's the third time he said that.

My first thought is the incentives gap. Labs like Anthropic can iterate at warp speed with captive talent, but most teams are still bottlenecked by procurement cycles, security reviews, and headcount freezes. Closing the loop means solving for organizational friction before syntax even matters.

This was 3-4 months ago. Well see in 2-9 months

I’m really sure you never coded

Lol... Back to reality, the code I wrote in 3 days truly can be written by AI in 30 minutes, but it will take 2 weeks to find and correct the huge mistakes introduced, and AI will be useless this time.

What a stupid claim, when was the last time Dario made a reality check? Go around a see what’s happening in the real companies. Salesmen tries to sell his product, nothing more.

Isn’t it supposed to be over soon?

@grok When Darieo gave this interview in March?

Meanwhile Amazon is holding emergency meetings today after massive outages related to Ai coding. People are either ignorant or delusional about where we are at with Ai.