India, Feb. 9 -- As fears grow that artificial intelligence could disrupt software jobs, a Reddit debate has revived a familiar question in Bengaluru's property market: what happens to real estate if the city's IT engine slows? The discussion was sparked by remarks attributed to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who suggested that software engineers could become 'largely obsolete' within a year.

Several Reddit users warned that such a shift could weigh on housing demand. "A lot of real estate is funded by people working abroad and earning in dollars," one commenter noted, adding that fewer overseas opportunities and the need for engineers to reskill could have a ripple effect on property purchases. The flip side, they argued, is that housing m...