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Kevin Okemwa

“Engineers don’t write code anymore” — Anthropic CEO says AI is about to eat the entire profession

The Anthropic AI logo is displayed on a mobile phone with a visual digital reflected background in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on December 7, 2025. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

I'm pretty sure that "coding is dead" with the prevalence of AI is starting to sound like a broken record by now. In 2024, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang indicated that coding already be dead in the water with the rapid advances in AI. He further indicated that it might not be a viable career option for the next generation, recommending biology, education, manufacturing, or farming as viable alternatives.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff seemingly echoed similar sentiments last year, when he indicated that the company was "seriously debating" hiring software engineers while citing incredible productivity gains from agentic AIs. Even Meta's Mark Zuckerberg claimed that mid-level AI engineers might claim coding jobs from professionals in 2025.

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