AI Advances Make Developers' Work Obsolete

An AI startup founder and investor warns that two model releases on February 5—OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Codex and Anthropic's Opus 4.6—have rapidly raised code-generation capabilities. He reports these models autonomously write, test, and iteratively refine production-quality software, effectively displacing technical work he previously performed. The author argues this coding-first strategy accelerates self-improvement and could disrupt law, finance, medicine, and other professions within one to five years.