📝 Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year?

An X Post went viral claiming:

“Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year.”

It sparked fear, debates, and plenty of hot takes.

There’s just one problem: He never actually said that.

What Musk really said at an xAI meeting was:

I think actually things will move maybe even by the end of this year to where you don't even bother doing coding. The AI just creates the binary directly. And the AI can create a much more efficient binary than can be done by any compiler.

Notice the words: “I think” and “maybe.” That’s speculation, not a technical forecast.

And just seconds earlier, his own programming lead (Mro) said:

You still need to review the code. But AI can accelerate you a lot.

So within one minute:

• Mro: “You still need to review the code and give feedback.”
• Musk: “Maybe no coding by year’s end.”

Programming isn’t dying. It’s changing.

We’re moving from: “Human writes code” to “AI writes, human designs, reviews, and takes responsibility.”

We’ve seen this before: Assembly → C → low-code. Each time, people said programming would disappear. Each time, software got more complex—and we needed more engineers.

Meanwhile, every AI company is hiring software engineers at full speed.

So which signal matters more?

Don’t listen to what they say. Watch what they do.