BREAKING
Amodei: AI Automates Coding First
Coding vs Software Engineering
Coding
Goes First
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Writing implementation
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Specific languages and frameworks
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Automated comparatively quickly
Software Engineering
Follows Later
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Requirements and design
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Testing and deployment
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End-to-end, harder to automate
The Sequence Amodei Describes
1
Coding automated
↓
2
Output per person jumps
↓
3
Full engineering follows
Skills He Expects to Persist
Reaction Is Split
Supporters
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Orchestrating models wins
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Build harnesses and agent loops
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Systems thinking rewarded
Skeptics
Gary Marcus
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Overheated hype
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Underrates whole-system view
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De-skilling concerns
No Firm Timeline Given
AI NEWS BLITZ
Anthropic's Dario Amodei says AI will take over coding before software engineering.