I work at OpenAI. Software developers are not obsoleted by Codex or Claude Code, nor will they be soon.

For our teams, Codex is a massive productivity booster that actually increases the value of each dev. If you check our hiring page, you’ll see we are still hiring aggressively. Our ambitions are bigger than our current workforce, and we continue to pay top dollar for talented devs who want to join us in transforming how silicon chips provide value to humans.

Akin to how compilers reduced the demand for assembly but increased the demand for software engineering, I see Codex reducing the demand for hand-typed code but increasing the demand for software engineering. Codex can read and write code faster than you or me, but it still lacks a lot of intelligence and wisdom and context to do whole jobs autonomously.

They said it'll be good enough in two weeks, give them some time!

They're not buying developers, they are buying the whole ecosystem to produce software. Still aligned with their original message.

When someone at work talks about all software devs being replaced I link them to the Anthropic career pages.

They're writing the software to end all softwares!

As good as the team is, that's not what they're buying in this case.

And, they buy a company writing tooling for Python in not Python.

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