[OFF-MENU] The Software Engineer's AI Apocalypse Survival Guide
📁 File under: #notpizza — because sometimes the most important ingredient is financial diversification The Software Engineer's AI Apocalypse Survival Guide Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Buy a Duplex Why You Need This Now (No, Seriously, Stop Scrolling Hacker News) On February 6, 2026, Anthropic published a blog post showing that 16 AI agents autonomously built a 100,000-line C compiler from scratch — capable of compiling the Linux kernel — in two weeks for $20,000. One researcher supervised. No human wrote a single line of code. The AI compiled Doom. We are cooked. To put this in perspective: this is a task that would make most senior engineers quietly update their LinkedIn before even attempting it. An AI did it while a human sat there redesigning unit tests and questioning his life choices. Let that sink in. Then let it sink in again. Then go check your savings account balance. Then come back. Estimated impact over the next 3-5 years: 30-...
