Dario Amodei just announced the death date of your profession. At Davos, Anthropic’s CEO said coding as a human skill has 6 to 12 months left. Not as hyperbole. As timeline. Amodei: “We might be 6 to 12 months away.” Not prediction. Observation. His engineers already quit writing code. Amodei: “I have engineers within Anthropic who say: ‘I don’t write any code anymore.’” They don’t touch syntax. They don’t debug loops. Models generate flawless code. Humans curate, validate, direct. The job isn’t building anymore. It’s conducting. The transformation happened silently. While bootcamps taught React, the actual profession mutated into something unrecognizable. Still typing functions manually? You’re not being diligent. You’re already obsolete and haven’t realized it. Amodei: “We would make models that were good at coding and use that to produce the next generation of model.” The loop closes. AI writes the code that births superior AI. Recursion without human dependency. Once sealed, progress stops being gated by people. Only by semiconductors. One year. Requirements to production, fully autonomous. Humans set strategy. Machines execute perfectly, instantly, infinitely. Syntax is dead. Only intent remains. You don’t build software now. You conceive it with precision, and intelligence manifests it before you finish the thought. The skill isn’t coding anymore. It’s knowing what to demand in the three seconds before the system delivers something you could never have built yourself. Your profession didn’t evolve. It evaporated. And the people still learning to code are training for jobs that won’t exist when they graduate.