During a recent interview at the Dreamforce conference, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff questioned the Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, as to why his firm is still hiring engineers despite the fact that most of the code has been written by artificial intelligence (AI).
Amodei said that the role of AI in software creation has become a reality, yet the experience of humans remains essential.
Amodei unveiled that at Anthropic, AI consists of generating approximately 90 % of team code today.
Nevertheless, the company still has engineers helping to complete the rest of the complicated tasks.
This group of professionals works on the 10% of programming that is most difficult, oversees several AI models, and ensures that the software is properly functioning.
This has seen engineers being around ten times more productive than earlier.
According to Amodei, AI does not replace humans, rather, it assists people in determining the most demanding and innovative aspects of software creation.
This, he went on, is more of a rebalancing of the workforce rather than a reduction.
Engineers are no longer spending their time on common code but on tactical decision making, problem solving, and quality management.
It is not just a trend at Anthropic. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan disclosed that a number of 2025 winter batch startups are already writing up to 95% of their code with the help of AI.
Nevertheless, the result of this automation has posed a threat to the entry level developers.
A Stanford University experiment showed that jobs for people between 22 and 25 years old decreased by almost 20% in the period between the end of 2022 and the middle of 2025, which was at the same time That AI coding tools became widely used.
Seasoned developers, on the other hand, are still sought after and are more secure in their jobs.
This discussion is an indication of the larger trend within the technical industry, although AI can take on the repetitive task, human wisdom is still critical in the innovation and supervision.
Businesses are becoming more and more aware of the fact that being able to understand what to construct and how it would fit within the bigger system and in a proper way are the skills that will never be substituted by AI.
At this point, it appears to be apparent that the role of the engineers is not vanishing but simply transforming due to the continuous development of the AI tools.
Human developers are increasingly valuable in the process of guiding AI and the optimal use of productivity by prioritizing the most critical, creative, and complex processes.
Such collaboration between humans and AI is the future of developing software.
