What Anders Hejlsberg thinks about AI and jobs

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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13 May 2026

Our readingProgrammers are turning into project managers of an army of junior agents, and the craft is moving from writing code to reviewing it and holding the architecture.

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Their wordsIn a sense, we're all turning into project managers, right? And and we can have an army of junior programmers called agents that will just spit out reams of code, but someone's got to have the big picture and review all of that. And so, increasingly our craft is going from one of writing the code to one of of reviewing the code and and building the architecture of the code and overseeing the work, if if you will.

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