Claude Code wasn’t cheap—it cost me about $50 in processing fees. You can burn through cash pretty quickly. But when I consider the countless hours of work it saved me, it was well worth it.

Garry Tan says "vibe coding" allows smaller teams of engineers to produce results that might take a team of 50-100 software developers to build. Harry Murphy/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images ...

A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force.