Anthropic: "Software Engineering is Dead," says Boris Cherny

Anthropic's top engineer, Boris Cherny, says manual software engineering is dead. He claims no one at Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, writes code by hand anymore. Here's the thing: Cherny hasn't touched a line of code himself since November. He describes a world where AI tools at Anthropic communicate, solve problems, and run autonomously with minimal human input. He even says there's "no manually written code anywhere at the company." What's interesting is that other tech giants are following suit. Google states 75% of its new code is now AI-generated. Meta requires 65% of its engineers to generate over 75% of their code with AI by early 2026. Snap also has a company-wide target of 65% AI-generated code. The bottom line: The role of a "software engineer" is transforming into an "AI director" or "builder." This shift means your future job could involve orchestrating AI, not writing lines of code.