‘It’s going to be painful for a lot of people’: Software engineers may not exist by year end, says creator of the AI program freaking out the market
Fortune • • general
Key Points:
- Claude Code, an autonomous coding tool developed by Boris Cherny and released a year ago, has transformed software engineering by enabling code generation with minimal human intervention, significantly accelerating development processes.
- Cherny predicts a shift in job roles, suggesting that traditional software engineer titles will fade, replaced by broader "builder" roles, as AI tools like Claude Code handle most coding tasks, allowing humans to focus on higher-level design and collaboration.
- Anthropic recently launched Cowork, a user-friendly AI tool derived from Claude Code, aimed at non-coders to automate management and organizational tasks, signaling AI’s expanding role beyond technical fields.
- Cherny compares the impact of Claude Code on software engineering to the historical disruption caused by the printing press, emphasizing that AI
