Anthropic Report Says Coders May Need to Learn to Plumb Toilets
Polymarket · x · 2026-09-10
Anthropic's latest economic report delivers a blunt message for the coding profession: as AI gets better at writing software, programmers may need to pivot to hands-on skills AI can't easily replace — the report's own example being plumbing toilets. The line quickly went viral on X.
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