If there is one job on which the impact of artificial intelligence is being felt most acutely, it is software engineering. Most core tasks, especially coding, are increasingly being handled by AI systems. IT giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are already using AI to write parts of their new codebases, and this level of automation is expected to increase further. Citing this ongoing change, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has warned that software engineering as a profession could effectively become obsolete within the next 12 months. Although this warning has divided opinion, Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu argues that it should be taken seriously, especially when it comes from a company that currently has some of the most advanced AI tools for coding.

Amodei made the warning while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, where he highlighted how rapidly artificial intelligence is reshaping jobs, productivity and the global economy. During the panel discussion, Dario Amodei suggested that the impact of AI on employment is no longer a distant or theoretical concern. While the Anthropic CEO’s comments have gone viral on social media, with some agreeing and others doubting it, Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu echoed the Anthropic CEO’s comments and urged people not to dismiss the warning. Responding to a video clip of Amodei’s comments shared on “We better pay attention to him because he has the best coding tool in the world,” Vembu wrote in his post.

As for the Anthropic chief’s warning at Davos, Amodei pointed out that AI is already changing from being a tool that helps humans do things to one that increasingly does the work itself. Software development is one of the clearest examples of this change, he said. Citing the example of his own company, he revealed that Anthropic’s engineers no longer write code on a daily basis, instead they rely on AI models to generate it, while primarily reviewing and editing the output. “I’ve had major engineering people basically tell me, ‘I don’t write any code anymore. I just let Opus do the work and I edit it,'” he said.

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Although Amodei’s warning is focused on coders, he warns that the impact will be felt far beyond software teams. He warned that AI could lead to the loss of important jobs in industries. “We basically have Moore’s Law for intelligence where models are becoming more and more cognitively capable every few months,” he said in Davos. Amodei argues that as AI systems perform more complex tasks, the need for large teams of human programmers could rapidly diminish, potentially eliminating entire job categories that took decades to create.