Anthropic's Boris Cherny once again reminds 'software engineering' is dead; says: At Anthropic, there's no manually written code anywhere, Claude AI tools talk to…
TIMESOFINDIA.COM / May 06, 2026, 15:33 (IST)
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says software engineering is already dead inside his own company—no one writes code by hand anymore, and Claude AI instances autonomously communicate over Slack to resolve problems across teams. As Google, Meta, Amazon and Snap race to set aggressive AI coding targets, Cherny believes IDE tools like VS Code and Xcode are next to disappear—and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "centaur phase" warning suggests the window for human coders is closing fast.