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@Sebalg_tech
We all know he has to keep pushing the same narrative to get funding… but it’s getting a bit boring
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ANTHROPIC CEO: “CODING IS GOING AWAY FIRST, THEN ALL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING” https://t.co/J9V94Wnk5J
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Community Sentiment Analysis
Real-time analysis of public opinion and engagement
Sentiment Distribution
76% Engaged
24% Positive
52% Negative
Positive
24%
Negative
52%
Neutral
25%
Key Takeaways
What the community is saying — both sides
Supporting
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Shift to human‑centric work
Many argue the near future rewards roles that require empathy, trust and interpersonal judgment — care, customer service, education and other people‑facing jobs that AI/robots can’t easily replicate.
2
Displacement + retraining dilemma
People worry about software engineers who spent years learning coding — will they retrain into prompt engineering or face a permanent shrinkage of available jobs?
3
Practical reality from practitioners
In production, the “writing code” step is already automated for some pipelines. The remaining value sits in deciding what to build, detecting failures at scale, and owning judgment calls when systems break.
4
Preserve coding as a craft
Several replies insist coding knowledge should be maintained and taught — not dumped like an obsolete handwriting style — to keep technical literacy and problem‑solving skills alive.
5
Don’t call it dead — it will evolve
A common optimistic take is that coding and developer roles will transform rather than vanish; developers will adapt to new tools and higher‑level tasks.
6
Acceleration and short timelines
Many expect compounding breakthroughs in AI + robotics to accelerate progress quickly — some even predict major shifts within months to a few years.
7
Centralization, cost and accountability risks
Concerns about trillion‑dollar platforms — high costs, poor customer support, and punitive automated bans — highlight how centralized automation can concentrate risk and harm users.
8
Sympathy and irony
Threads express pity for engineers who profited from recent tech booms only to be threatened by the same innovations, framing the outcome as a bitter irony.
Opposing
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AI can assist but not replace creativity
building novel systems still needs human engineers who understand requirements, architecture and trade‑offs.
2
current models are unreliable on complex or novel tasks
examples: token limits, poor handling of single‑page apps, recursion and other real‑world edge cases.
3
AI speeds developers up, it doesn’t eliminate them
tools change workflows and productivity but don’t remove the need for expert judgment.
4
accusations of fear‑mongering to attract funding
, repeating the same narrative to justify huge burn rates.
5
company hypocrisy
pointing to heavy engineering hiring and large salaries at firms claiming coding will disappear.
6
a booming job market
with recruiters offering higher, better‑paid roles, undermining the “software jobs are disappearing” claim.
7
anger at leadership
, labeling the push to automate as misanthropic or destructive to people and communities.
8
market shakeups — foreign models could displace incumbents
or the companies making bold claims may fail financially.
9
“I’ll believe it when my toaster writes audited services”
using humor to signal disbelief.
Top Reactions
Most popular replies, ranked by engagement
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@Surajdotdot7
Already living this. Run multi-agent Claude Code pipelines processing 8K+ images/month. The writing-code part is largely gone. The hard part is still: what do you build, how do you catch where it breaks at scale, and who owns the judgment calls when it fails.
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@bowecho777
Certainly the most entertaining outcome. All the coders who made crazy amounts of money over the last decade or so are the first to get crushed by their own type. Crazy irony.
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@SahilPanhotra
well i don't believe everything he says just like AGI is still not here
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@denizumutdereli
Dario will be fired. Anthropic will be dropped via China's models.
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@PixemWebDesign
wledge work is going to be left to ai. And with advanced robotics, all physical labor will be done by highly customizable machines with ai of course. So who’s going to spend the equivalent of a mortgage for their higher education 🤔 Game this out, no matter how you slice it, in
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