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khalic 3 hours ago

Let’s assume their marketing argument is in good faith (it isn’t, they’re just capturing market knowing very well they won’t replace most software dev):

Where did Anthropic say that they want to “end” software development. They make it more efficient, which could lead to less software developer.

How is this “campaigning to end software engineering”? It’s an exaggeration at best, dishonest and sensationalist at worst

suddenlybananas 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>Where did Anthropic say that they want to “end” software development

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-ceo-says-softw...

https://xcancel.com/Vivek4real_/status/2074990159783768107

If you're selling a product and you're claiming that product will replace something, it's not unreasonable to claim that you want to end that thing.

pydry 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Where did Anthropic say that they want to “end” software development.

https://digitalstrategy-ai.com/2026/01/23/claude-code-anthro...

brabel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This article explains what they mean by end of software engineering:

> his engineering teams rarely write code from scratch anymore. The role has shifted from creation to orchestration. Engineers now operate as “conductors”—defining high-level problems, prompting AI systems to generate implementations, then reviewing and integrating outputs.

Well I have been working like that as well but sure as hell I still consider that to be software engineering. You won’t get anywhere if you try doing this without being a software engineer. At least not very far, see how far purely vibe coded applications can get.

entrope 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can you point out exactly where it says that? As I read it, the claim is that AI boosts the productivity of writing code to the point that it's usually not productive for humans to write code directly. I think that boost only goes so far -- safety-critical code still needs to be well-understood by people, and a lot of the higher level thinking has insufficient ground truth to train AIs on it -- but it's fundamentally a claim about transforming software development rather than ending it.

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