For our third episode, I wanted to highlight a contrasting view — someone who believes that AI really is on its way toward eliminating certain jobs. Boris Cherny is the creator and head of Claude Code — the agentic coding tool that Anthropic released last year and is, by most measures, the fastest-growing AI coding tool in the world. Cherny belongs firmly to the camp that believes the end of software engineering as we know it is already underway. He hasn’t written a line of code himself in more than six months, and he says that for the kind of work he does, coding is effectively “solved.” Given that he is, by his own account, actively automating his own job, it’s no surprise that Cherny sees the disruption arriving far faster than our first two guests. He told me that the title “software engineer” could start to disappear by the end of this year, dissolving into something closer to something like “builder” as the designers, product managers, and managers around him start shipping code of their own.

Full interview : Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny answers questions on how the title “software engineer” could disappear, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more.