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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang echoed similar sentiments, claimingcoding might be dead in the waterwith the prevalence of AI.

Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has seemingly joined the fray.

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc.

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc.

And this is the new version of that.

And then at some point, yeah, maybe we do need less software engineers.

A separate study suggestedthat 54% of banking jobs can already be automated using AI.

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Is software development with manual coding in trouble?

He admitted that AI is already playing a major role in software development and coding.

I think in many companies, its probably past 50% now," added Altman.

Interestingly, Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff might have already confirmed Altman’s theory.

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.

The executive recently indicated thatthe company was seriously debating on hiring software engineers in 2025.

Elsewhere, a bizarre report spottedAI refusing to write code after generating approximately 800 lines of code.

“Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities.”

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