Why right now is the best time ever to work in software

Anthropic’s Claude® Code tool is seen as a breakthrough that could lower the cost of modernizing legacy COBOL systems, prompting markets to react as if a long‑standing enterprise issue had a silver bullet. The narrative shifts from AI’s unique strengths to hopes of replacing old code, yet the reality is that AI marks the start of a new software era, a moment of unprecedented excitement for the industry.