"The creator of a popular AI coding agent said software engineering as a job title will soon be a thing of the past as artificial intelligence automates writing code. Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code at Anthropic, said in an interview with Y Combinator's "Lightcone" podcast that 2026 will bring "insane" developments to AI. That includes a massive shift in the work software engineers do across industries."
""I think today coding is practically solved for me, and I think it'll be the case for everyone regardless of domain," Cherny said in the interview, published Tuesday. "I think we're going to start to see the title 'software engineer' go away. And I think it's just going to be maybe builder, maybe product manager, maybe we'll keep the title as a vestigial thing.""
AI coding agents are automating the process of writing code and enabling rapid shifts in how software is developed. Significant AI advancements anticipated by 2026 are expected to reduce manual coding across industries. The role labeled "software engineer" is likely to transform into broader product or builder roles, with professionals focusing on specifications, user conversations, and oversight tasks such as reviewing and debugging agent-produced code. Teams are becoming more generalist, with product managers, designers, and finance staff interacting with code-generation tools. Agents are already producing full codebases in some startups, changing workflows and responsibilities.
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