Генеральний директор Anthropic Даріо Амодей. Фото: Twitter / Reuters
CEO of Anthropic and «father» Claude chatbot Dario Amodei made a sharp prediction about the future of software engineers, hinting that their main job will be 100% performed by artificial intelligence in a year.
According to Amodei, artificial intelligence may soon «completely take over» coding tasks, given the rapid development of tools such as GitHub Copilot and Anthropic’s own Claude Code, which demonstrate increasingly sophisticated capabilities.
«I’m really concerned about that,» Amodei says. «On the one hand, I think comparative advantage is a very powerful tool. And on the other hand, when I look at coding and programming, one of the areas where AI is making the most progress, I think in 3-6 months we will be in a place where technology is writing 90% of the code».
Amodei went on to say that in a year, we could move to a world where AI writes all the code.
In 3 to 6 months AI will write about 90% of all code. In about 12 months (1 year!) AI will write 100% of all code.
That’s coming from Dario Amodei, CEO Anthropic.
So year looking bad for several people and looking good for self-developing AI pic.twitter.com/dDQytDt6BS— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) March 11, 2025
Similar predictions were made by Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and chief product officer at Anthropic, who noted that in the future, software engineers will spend more time reviewing code than creating it, and will take on «more abstract» work that AI cannot yet handle.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also claimed that «the best coder in the world» by the end of 2025 will be AI, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has already announced that more than a quarter of new code in the company is created by AI.
If these predictions are true, IT companies will have to significantly reduce the number of programmers, abandoning specialists who are just starting out and retaining more experienced ones to focus on rapid AI development and supervision. Universities and course developers will also have to adapt their curricula to the new requirements.
At the same time, recent reports have already shown that developers spend only 16% of their working time on codingThe rest is occupied by background and operational tasks.