Instagram cofounder predicts how the work of a software engineer will change in the next 3 years

In a recent podcast interview, Mike Krieger, who is now Anthropic's chief product officer, stated that developers would spend more time checking AI-generated code than writing it themselves. "How do we shift from primarily being coders to primarily delegating to models and code reviewers?" On a recent episode of "20VC," Krieger asked. Software developers will learn how to effectively oversee the systems themselves and tackle the more abstract tasks that AI models are unable to handle as the act of coding itself increasingly involves artificial intelligence, according to Krieger. Krieger stated, "That's what I think the work will look like in three years." "It's coming up with the right ideas, doing the right user interaction design, figuring out how to delegate work correctly, and then figuring out how to review things at scale — and that's probably some combination of maybe a comeback of some static analysis or maybe AI-driven analysis tools of what was actually produced."
 Software development has already begun at some Big Tech companies. In October, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that AI was already producing more than a quarter of the company's new code. Krieger stated that he began the year at Anthropic by determining which aspects of the product development process were "Claude-ified" and which were best left up to humans, in addition to using AI to write some of the code himself. Krieger stated, "Driving alignment and actually deciding what to build is still the hardest part, right?" "Like that is actually the only thing that is still best resolved by just getting together in a room and talking through the pros and cons, or going off and exploring it in Figma and coming back." According to Krieger, AI will instead alter the skills required to remain relevant in a coding-related job, despite the fact that it may speed up certain parts of the product development process. This is a concern that is top of mind for some computer science majors and recent graduates who previously spoke with Business Insider. "I think it becomes multidisciplinary, where it's knowing what to build as much as it is knowing the exact implementation that you want," Krieger said.  "I love that about our engineers.  I believe that's what the role ends up looking like for a lot of our good product ideas, possibly even the majority of them." Our engineers prototyping "At Anthropic, we're focused on developing powerful and responsible AI that works with people, not in place of them," the spokesperson for the company told BI. The company viewed itself as a "testbed" for how other workplaces could navigate AI-driven changes to critical roles. "We're observing developers gradually shifting toward higher-level responsibilities as Claude rapidly advances in its coding capabilities for real-world tasks." According to Krieger, for the time being, certain tasks are still best carried out by human hands. "And I think alignment, deciding what to build, solving real user problems, and like figuring out a cohesive product strategy — still very hard," he said.  "And probably the models are more than a year away from solving that.  That is the constraint."