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By the end of 2026 everyone will code and the software engineer title will start to go away.

Boris Cherny, Anthropic · made Feb 19, 2026 · target Dec 2026 · Open

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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
Boris Cherny, Fortune (the quote as reported there)

The prediction

Who
Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code, Anthropic
Made
Feb 19, 2026
Target
Dec 31, 2026 (stated as "by the end of the year")
Status
Openin 3 months
Source
Fortune Secondary: a report of what they said
Topics
Coding,Jobs

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