https://lesterbotello.dev/tags/anthropic/ Recent content in Anthropic on lesterbotello.dev https://lesterbotello.dev/images/profile-new.png https://lesterbotello.dev/images/profile-new.png Hugo -- 0.148.1 en-us Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500 https://lesterbotello.dev/posts/20260308/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500 https://lesterbotello.dev/posts/20260308/ <p>If you’ve been following the recent labor market impact assessments—specifically the <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts">latest research from Anthropic</a>—the numbers look startling at first glance. Computer programmers are listed at the very top of the &ldquo;exposed&rdquo; list, with a staggering 75% of our tasks identified as being within the reach of AI automation.</p> <p><img alt="Share of job tasks that LLMs could theoretically perform (blue area) - Source: Anthropic" loading="lazy" src="https://lesterbotello.dev/posts/20260308/c1952c81bca02a7c8cc05ef7801e67ca60831c55-4096x4096.webp"></p> <p>But as someone who has navigated the industry for over two decades, I can&rsquo;t shake the feeling that I’ve kind of seen this movie before. Long before I started coding, assembler experts were alarmed with the rise of COBOL and Fortran. Flashforward a few decades and the rise of IDEs were the new cause of panic, followed by the &ldquo;low-code&rdquo; movement, and the offshore outsourcing waves a few years later. Each time, the narrative is the same: The end of the software development career is near.</p>