Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Could Replace Software Engineers in 6-12 Months
himanshustwts · x · 2026-09-05
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declared that AI could replace software engineers within 6 to 12 months, a claim amplified via a Polymarket breaking-news repost that quickly drew jokes about Anthropic's missing IPO. Amodei has repeatedly predicted AI will transform programming work, but this statement compresses the timeline to under a year — one of his boldest public calls yet on AI's impact on software engineering jobs.
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