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Boris Cherny: "Software Engineer Title Will Go Away by Year-End"
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Claude Code creator doubled down in Fortune: "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." Replaced by "builder." Compares to printing press. "I have not edited a single line by hand since November." At Anthropic, AI writes 70-90% of code company-wide, 90% of Claude Code itself is written by Claude Code. Advice: become "generalists" who understand design, infrastructure, and business. (Fortune)
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