Andreessen Reframes Programmers As AI Orchestrators

Marc Andreessen, co‑founder of Netscape and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, says AI coding tools are transforming programmers into supervisors of multiple autonomous coding agents, remarks shared on X by Ian Miles Cheong. He argues that while AI accelerates code generation, deep programming fundamentals remain essential to evaluate, debug, and secure AI outputs, reshaping hiring and productivity expectations across software development.