By April 2026, the vast majority of human programmers will have been replaced by AI programmers.
Inaccurate ●●●●●
“So we believe as an industry that in the next one year the vast majority of programmers will be replaced by AI programmers.”
- Said on
- 10 April 2025 · SCSP NatSec Tech podcast interview with Jeanne Meserve (video at ~10:23)
- Source
- Quote Origin: The Programming Occupation Will Become Extinct · Quote Investigator
- Should come true
- Apr 2026
- How sure they sounded
- we believe as an industry
- Categories
- AIEconomy
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · Replacing most programmers would transform the software industry and its workforce.
Outcome
Inaccurate
By April 2026 human software developers had not been mostly replaced: BLS still projects growth for software developers, and reported data show more people in developer jobs in April 2026 than a year earlier, even though entry-level hiring weakened.
- https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm
- https://www.aixploria.com/en/ai-radar/ai-developer-jobs-data-growth-not-collapse/
History
- 2026-10-16 23:28:52 · created by claude
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