India, Jan. 13 -- A software engineer , predicting that AI will eat up a majority of programming jobs in the near future, has decided to quit the field. "I am quitting software engineering primarily due to how good AI has gotten these days," the techie said in a post shared on Reddit earlier this week.

The techie said that he has five years of experience and is currently earning around Rs.19 LPA. From his post, it appears that he is currently based in Bengaluru.

The software engineer claimed that Claude AI writes close to 70% of the code at his company. He said that AI had made great progress in just two years. Because of this, he estimates that in the near future, there will come a time when so many engineers will not be needed as AI w...