'Holy Crap. The End Of Me', Says Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt On AI Doing Coding Jobs - The Times Of India

By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2025-12-14 03:12:00

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt expressed astonishment at AI’s rapid progress, particularly its ability to autonomously generate code, admitting his own potential obsolescence. He highlighted AI’s significant impact on automating business operations like billing and accounting, predicting artificial general intelligence within three to five years. Schmidt cautioned about the need for human oversight to preserve agency and freedom.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt expressed shock at artificial intelligence’s rapid advancement in software development, declaring his own obsolescence after witnessing an AI system generate an entire program autonomously—a moment that crystallized both the promise and peril of the technology he has championed for decades.“Holy crap. The end of me,” Schmidt said during a forum at Harvard University 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.”

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