Anthropic's Claude Code creator predicts software engineering title will start to 'go away' in 2026

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny said AI will have solved for coding for everyone by the end of 2026.

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• Software engineers are increasingly relying on AI agents to write code.
• Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, said in an interview that AI "practically solved" coding.
• Cherny said software engineers will take on different tasks beyond coding.

The creator of a popular AI coding agent said software engineering as a job...