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Timeline of predictions: Mar 2025 — Dario Amodei said "AI is writing 90 percent…
Brief
Om Patel's post juxtaposes Anthropic leaders' predictions that software engineering will vanish (with quotes from Dario Amodei, Adam Wolff, and Boris Cherny between Mar 2025–Feb 2026) against Anthropic increasing open SWE roles from 35 (Feb 2025) to 140+ (Apr 2026), arguing demand is shifting to architects and AI-review engineers.
Why it matters
Timeline of predictions: Mar 2025 — Dario Amodei said "AI is writing 90 percent of the code"; May 2025 — Amodei said "AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs"; Nov 2025 — Adam Wolff said "maybe as soon as the first half of next year: software engineering is done"; Jan 2026 — Amodei said "maybe all of what SWEs do end to end"; Feb 2026 — Boris Cherny said "we're going to start to see the title 'software engineer' go away".
Key details
- Anthropic's advertised open SWE roles climbed from 35 in Feb 2025 to 140+ by April 2026 while those statements were being made.
- Author's inference: either Anthropic doesn't believe its own public claims or it's hiring more engineers because the AI tools they're building require higher-skilled engineers; demand is shifting from "people who write code" to "people who architect systems and review what AI writes".