Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and now Chief Product Officer at AI company Anthropic, believes that the role of software engineers is changing rapidly, and that they will soon start reviewing «routine code» created by artificial intelligence, rather than writing it themselves.
Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and now Chief Product Officer at AI company Anthropic, believes that the role of software engineers is changing rapidly, and that they will soon start reviewing «routine code» created by artificial intelligence, rather than writing it themselves.
As Windows Central notes, Krieger wasn’t adamant that AI will completely take over coding. He believes that AI will be delegated repetitive and routine tasks as software engineers focus their expertise on more delicate tasks that AI can’t always handle.
«This is what I think work will look like in three years. It’s finding the right ideas, developing the right user experience design, figuring out how to delegate the work properly, and then figuring out how to see things at scale — and it’s probably some combination of maybe going back to static analysis or maybe AI-based analysis tools of what’s actually been built,» said Mike Krieger.
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman says the rapid emergence and adoption of AI could force software developers to stop coding, forcing them to upskill in the field to gain new skills.
«If you look 24 months ahead, or some time in the future — I can’t predict exactly when — it’s quite possible that most developers won’t be coding,» he said.
Their statements come amid the growing popularity of the programming technique vibe-coding, which involves delegating the writing of code to AI chatbots based on user instructions. It was first described by Andrey Karpaty, a former OpenAI researcher and now director of artificial intelligence and computer vision for Autopilot at Tesla.
«I ask [the AI chatbot] the dumbest things, like ‘halve the sidebar padding,’ because I’m too lazy to figure it out myself. I always ‘Accept All,’ I don’t read the differences anymore,» he says.
Recall that earlier, Ukrainian Observability Engineer Yevgeny decided to test the Grok 3 AI chatbot from xAI in application development. To do this, he created a simple English Words Trainer application for learning new words in JavaScript.
In a comment to dev.ua, the developer noted that he is not a professional programmer and wanted to do something useful for his younger brother, who is learning English. According to him, Grok 3 felt «like a smart friend who really wants to help».
