ELON: THERE WILL BE NOy CODE WRITING IN THE FUTURE
Remember when you had to write code? AI now spits out apps from a sentence like, “Build me a fitness tracker with push notifications.”
Syntax is dead. Abstraction won. Your job title is about to change from “engineer” to “idea… https://t.co/fdnlq7kqi1 pic.twitter.com/F1y3eGBGHN
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 7, 2025
ELON: THERE WILL BE NO CODE WRITING IN THE FUTURE
Remember when you had to write code? AI now spits out apps from a sentence like, “Build me a fitness tracker with push notifications.”
Syntax is dead. Abstraction won. Your job title is about to change from “engineer” to “idea whisperer.”
Sure, AI still screws up – but so do junior devs. And unlike them, AI doesn’t ask for coffee breaks.
We’ve gone from hand-coding assembly to mumbling product specs at machines that build the software for us.
more fun than ever to be a koder pic.twitter.com/maBZ1g9tT3
— Alistair McLeay (@alistairmcleay) August 3, 2025
Elon Musk, CEO of AI start-up xAI, predicts that writing software will soon resemble painting, shifting from a functional profession to a creative pastime as AI continues to automate routine coding tasks.
Responding on social media to a post by OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Musk wrote: “AI has taken a lot of the drudgery out of writing software. But, in the fairly near future, writing software will be like being a painter… now you can make a video selfie instantly and effortlessly. There are still people who paint, of course but it’s recreational rather than functional.”
He’s right in that AI has taken a lot of the drudgery out of writing software.
But, in the fairly near future, writing software will be like being a painter:
In the old days, you needed a professional painter to spend many days just to make one selfie (fka a portrait) just so…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 3, 2025