By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-01-02 11:37:00
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared his own programming expertise obsolete after watching an AI system autonomously generate an entire software program, calling it a “profound” moment that signals the end of traditional coding careers. “Holy crap. The end of me,” Schmidt said during a forum at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum earlier this month. “I’ve been doing programming for 55 years. To see something start and end in front of your own life is really profound.”The tech veteran underlined the rapid development of AI from being a useful assistant to a possible replacement for qualified…
