Software engineers could go extinct this year, says Claude Code creator

Or they could not.

Oh look, the headline is not what he said

> 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.

AI companies are like Moon landing today. Nobody went near the Moon for 60 years. AI will have the same fate. Humans consume what other humans create.