Software Engineer as a job isn’t dead. The two companies behind the most AI generated code are still hiring based on manual coding competency.

On the job OpenAI and Anthropic engineers are one of the biggest users of AI coding.

Over 90% of Codex is written using AI.

Over 95% of Claude Code is written using AI

But there’s still a human developer using that AI as a tool. And the quality of AI output depends on the user.