Overview
- Vembu advised people who make a living writing code to start considering alternative livelihoods, explicitly including himself.
- He pointed to a week-long iOS Bhagavad Gita app project by a non-coder who said he wrote zero lines of code using tools from Anthropic and OpenAI.
- Vembu cited reports that Anthropic’s Claude built a full C compiler, describing it as a difficult engineering feat, though this remains a reported demonstration.
- Referencing Davos remarks, Vembu amplified Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s view that software engineering could become effectively obsolete within about a year.
- Coverage notes Anthropic engineers increasingly let models generate code, as investor jitters, layoffs and mixed developer reactions underscore the broader labor and market impact.