Krishnan: Engineers at many companies have not written code in six months
Vijay Krishnan · The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing · Jul 31, 2026 · at 30:27
Vijay Krishnan, co-founder of Turing, discusses the unprecedented paradigm shift in software development workflows driven by generative AI.
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“There are so many companies now where software engineers have not had to write a single line of code in say more than six months, which is I mean, quite unprecedented, right?”
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