ClaimsDaniela Amodei

“My guess is software developers will still be around, but they won’t be writing as much code.”

Daniela Amodei, Anthropic president 9 May 2026 Daniela Amodei, Co-Founder and President of Anthropic: Building AI the Right Way (transcript) (The Transcript Desk)

Prediction AI, the economy and work

Her guess is that software developers will still be around in future but will not write as much code.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

The prediction has no horizon and is vague ("less code").

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Daniela Amodei, “Her guess is that software developers will still be around in future but will not write as much code.” (said 9 May 2026). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_09081ddc6b6b, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_09081ddc6b6b

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