Programming Won’t Survive AI But Bret Taylor Thinks Sierra Will.

Bret Taylor, co-founder of Sierra and chairman of OpenAI, says the quiet part out loud. AI is coming for programmers. “The thing I self-identify with [being a computer programmer] is, like, being obviated by this technology,” he admitted on a recent podcast with The Information. For someone who built Google Maps, led Salesforce as co-CEO, and still calls himself a coder, Taylor’s warning lands with weight. And it frames a reality that the man now pitching AI agents to Fortune 500s is also predicting the extinction of his own profession. Taylor argues that the enterprise software market moves like a pendulum between “best of breed” products and “best of platform” incumbents. Right now, he says, the pendulum is firmly on the side of startups building agents that solve specif