Predictionsby GlyphBy the end of 2026 everyone will code and the software engineer title will start to go away.
Boris Cherny, Anthropic
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I think by the end of the year, everyone is going to be a product manager, and everyone codes. The title software engineer is going to start to go away
- Who
- Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code, Anthropic
- Made
- Feb 19, 2026 8 months ago
- Target
- Dec 31, 2026 in 7 weeks (stated as "by the end of the year")
- Status
- Openin 7 weeks
- Source
- Fortune Secondary: a report of what they said
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