2026-02-20 · Dwarkesh Clips · 00:33
“people thought I was saying like we won't need 90% of the software engineers those things are worlds apart”He believes AI models writing 90% of code does not mean 90% of software engineers become unnecessary.
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2026-02-13 · Dwarkesh Patel · 14:50Changed view
“With coding, except for that irreducible uncertainty, I think we'll be there in one or two years.”He expects AI to handle end-to-end software engineering within one or two years.
2026-01-20 · DRM News · 01:53
“We might be six to 12 months away from when the model is doing most maybe all of what sues do end to end.”He expects models to do most or all of what software engineers do within six to twelve months.
2026-01-20 · DWS News · 01:46
“We might be six to 12 months away from when the model is doing most maybe all of what SWES do end to end.”He expects models to do most or all software engineering work end to end within six to twelve months.
2026-01-20 · Bloomberg Live · 02:03
“I think we're entering the world where, you know, the junior level software engineers, maybe many of the tasks of the more senior level software engineers are starting to be done, you know, most of the way by buying AI systems”He expects junior-level and many senior-level software engineering tasks to be done mostly by AI systems.
2026-01-20 · The Wall Street Journal · 05:32
“software is going to become cheap maybe essentially free”He expects software to become cheap or essentially free as AI writes more code.
2025-12-09 · Bloomberg Podcasts · 02:04
“we've seen very large productivity gains with that”He believes coding tools like Claude Code deliver very large productivity gains.
2025-10-19 · Salesforce · 19:36
“if Claude is writing 90% of the code what that means usually is you need just as many software engineers you might need more because they can they can then be more leveraged.”He believes AI already writes most code at Anthropic and that this increases rather than reduces demand for engineers.
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