Coding's great reckoning: Inside the months software engineering changed forever

Timo Lenzen for BI They're more productive than ever. They're inspired. And some of them are terrified. Software engineers have spent decades in one of tech's most lucrative and in-demand roles. Now, they're watching their jobs change irrevocably. In the space of a few weeks late last year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all released new AI models that drastically improved their coding tools. Almost overnight, AI was suddenly good at complex tasks — the kind that used to take humans years to ...