The Reddit post, likely referencing external content, implicitly questions why AI companies like Anthropic still employ a significant number of software engineers.

Anthropic's job posting for a 'forward deployed engineer' includes responsibilities like building production applications with Claude models and delivering technical artifacts.

The Reddit post's implied premise is that AI's ability to perform coding tasks should reduce the need for human software engineers at AI companies.

Anthropic recently wrote that over 80% of the code merged into Anthropic's codebase is authored by Claude, indicating AI is now building itself.