Software engineers are still important to Amazon, according to AWS CEO Matt Garman.<\/p>\n
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At Amazon’s What’s Next with AWS event on Tuesday, Garman said Amazon is continuing to hire developers, even as AI tools reshape how they work.<\/p>\n
“I can tell you we are hiring just as many software developers as we ever had inside of Amazon,” he said. “And in fact, I see the demand for that really accelerating.”<\/p>\n
Garman said Amazon plans to bring on 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026 \u2014 a figure an Amazon spokesperson told Business Insider is in line with previous years.<\/p>\n
While Garman pushed back on the idea that AI will disrupt software engineering jobs<\/a>, he said the role itself is changing as new tools automate parts of the work.<\/p>\n “The jobs will be a little bit different,” he said. “Being an expert at being able to author a Java code snippet is going to be less valuable in the future than it was maybe a couple of years ago.”<\/p>\n Instead, he emphasized broader skills, such as building applications and solving customer problems. He added that technical knowledge remains important, particularly when working with customers using cloud services.<\/p>\n His comments come as some tech leaders warn that advances in AI coding tools could disrupt the profession.<\/p>\n Since late 2025, companies including Anthropic have released tools capable of generating code in minutes. In February, Boris Cherny<\/a>, the creator of Claude Code, said the title “software engineer” could eventually “go away.” Andreessen Horowitz partner Martin Casado<\/a> has also said the field is being “disrupted as a discipline.”<\/p>\n Garman has previously dismissed more aggressive takes. In August, he said the idea of replacing junior employees<\/a> with AI was “one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.”<\/p>\n