AI writes 90% of company code at Anthropic, says CEO

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has recently revealed that artificial intelligence models now generate approximately 90% of the code used within his company.

Speaking at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Amodei confirmed his prediction from earlier this year that most coding would be handled by AI within six months had become reality at Anthropic and several partner companies.

When questioned about whether this reduced the need for human engineers, Amodei suggested the opposite might be true. "If Claude is writing 90% of the code, what that means, usually, is you need just as many software engineers. You might need more," he explained.

He described the shift as a "rebalancing" that allows engineers to focus on the most challenging aspects of programming while supervising AI systems.

The trend appears to be spreading across the industry. According to a report by TechCrunch, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan previously noted that about a quarter of current startups in the accelerator's program use AI to write 95% or more of their code.

However, data suggests this transformation may be affecting employment patterns, with one study showing a nearly 20% decline in positions for developers aged 22-25 since ChatGPT's launch, while experienced engineers remain in demand.