Why is Anthropic saying "software engineering is done"?

[wordsaboutcode]

https://www.augmentedswe.com/p/ai-augmented-software-engineering

[al_borland]

They have a product to sell, that’s why they’re saying it.

[brettkromkamp]

It's so obvious that it's cringe. They have a product to sell so these kind of things are all part of a larger marketing campaign in preparation for their IPO.

[techblueberry]

“For most of the history of the profession, being a software engineer meant spending most of your day grinding out syntax.”

This was not written by a software engineer.

[xenospn]

They need press releases to hype up their IPO.

[chistev]

But they couldn't vibe code their own runtime?

[cheevly → chistev]

Yes they could, it's called Claude Code.