Anthropic CEO Projects AI to Take Over Most Software Coding
Dario Amodei, CEO and cofounder of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, has made a bold prediction: Artificial intelligence could soon be responsible for writing a majority of the software code in use. Amodei suggested that AI could potentially be “writing essentially all of the code” within a year.
Speaking at a Council of Foreign Relations event, Amodei stated, “I think we will be there in three to six months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code.”
Amodei acknowledged that software developers would continue to play a role in the short term. He explained that humans will still be needed to provide AI models with design specifications and parameters. However, he anticipates AI eventually handling more and more aspects of the process. “But on the other hand, I think that eventually all those little islands will get picked off by AI systems. And then, we will eventually reach the point where the AIs can do everything that humans can. And I think that will happen in every industry,” Amodei said.
Amodei, who previously worked at OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic in 2021, noted that the company has secured billions of dollars in investment from major tech players such as Google and Amazon.
This isn’t the first time Amodei has discussed AI’s potential widespread influence. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Amodei mentioned that people still don’t fully understand the scope of AI’s potential impact on daily life and careers. “I think people will wake up to both the risks and the benefits to a much more extreme extent than they will before over the next two years,” Amodei said in an interview on the Times’ “Hard Fork” podcast that aired on February 28.
Representatives for Amodei at Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment.
Amodei’s assessment resonates with others in the tech and economic sectors. Garry Tan, president and CEO of the startup incubator Y Combinator, shared data indicating a significant shift in software development. In a March 5 post on X, he indicated that a quarter of the companies in the company’s 2025 winter cohort were already leaning heavily upon AI for coding.
“For 25% of the Winter 2025 batch, 95% of lines of code are LLM generated. That’s not a typo,” Tan wrote.
Furthermore, Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, spoke last year about AI’s potential effect on global employment. Georgieva expects AI to impact as many as 40% of all jobs worldwide.
“Roughly half the exposed jobs may benefit from AI integration, enhancing productivity. For the other half, AI applications may execute key tasks currently performed by humans, which could lower labor demand, leading to lower wages and reduced hiring,” Georgieva wrote in a blog post in January 2024.
Georgieva further warned that “In the most extreme cases, some of these jobs may disappear.”
