In a new interview with Ben Thompson of layers This week, Openai General Director Sam Altman, 39, said when he was finishing high school “The visible tactical thing was (to get really good in coding.”
, Says Altman: “The visible tactical thing is simply to do really good in using it.”
It is not alone, as many high -tech CEOs have noticed that it is getting better in writing the code. At the beginning of this month, Said anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that he will write all Code for software engineers within a year. Meta Director General Mark Zuckerberg, meanwhile, told Joe Rogan in January That the company is developing the new one who will be able to write “many of the code in our applications”.
Altman told Stratechery that mastering the tools of he is the “new version” of learning to encode and that at least half of the code's authorship is currently being automated.
“I think in many companies, maybe it's 50% now,” Altman said. “But the big thing I think will come with agent coding, which no one is really doing yet.”
When they were fully asked if his company were to rent still software engineersAltman said that now, there is a lot of work, but in the long run, the exact one they are working on can end up at the job market.
“My basic assumption is that every software engineer will do a lot, much more for a while,” Altman said. “And then at one point, yes, maybe we need fewer software engineers.”