How many months has it been since we were told there would be zero software engineers left in the world in 12 months?
The important context I think people may miss is, this does not require AI to be 10x or 5x or even 1x as good as a human programmer. Claude is worse than me in meaningful ways at the kind of code I need to write, but it’s still doing almost all my coding because after 4.6 it’s smart enough to understand when I explain what program it should have written.
A rent seeking mega corp that stopped writing real software over a decade ago you could literally force all your employees to use LLMs, but there is no value add for serious companies trying to solve real problems with programming.