AI is getting better at coding. In recent weeks, there have been fears that the era of humans manually writing code was over, something even said by NodeJS creator, Ryan Dahl. The internet is already debating which coding agent might be better, be it Anthropic’s Claude Code or Elon Musk’s Grok Code. But according to Musk, this question won’t matter, as coding is set to become just another generic product soon.
On X, Elon Musk replied to a post that discussed his plans for Grok Code, xAI’s own coding agent. The tech billionaire stated, “Coding will become a generic product this year.”
And we are seeing signs of this already. Anthropic has previously stated that its Claude Opus 4.6 model created a C-compiler on its own within two weeks, a big achievement considering how complex the task was.
Elon Musk says coding models will hardly get anything wrong
In a separate post, Elon Musk insisted that while Grok Code was about to get much better, and potentially even outperform Claude Code in the coming months, the differences between the two may be marginal.
He wrote, “It will be hard to tell the difference between the leading coding models, as they will so rarely get anything wrong.”
Musk’s comments indicate that AI coding agents will likely become so reliable in the coming months, that it will likely not matter which agent you used. Rather, coding itself will be treated as a commoditised, generic service, similar to how self-driving tech could perfect over time.
Elon Musk claims you don’t need to bother to code
This is not the first time Musk has expressed his views on the future of coding. Earlier this year, the SpaceX boss said, “By the end of this year you don’t even bother doing coding – The AI just creates the binary directly”
As per Elon, this would allow coders to “bypass even traditional coding,” as AI would be more effective than traditional compilers required to translate information into binary for machines.
Musk’s comments come at a time when companies like Spotify have said that AI is doing most of the work when it comes to coding. Even Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei has admitted that in the future, his startup may not need many software engineers.
