Hejlsberg: 'Who's Going to Make the AI?'

Sajjaad Khader sat down with Anders Hejlsberg the other day. Yes, that Anders Hejlsberg: the man behind Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and TypeScript. The chat is twelve minutes long (or probably a lot longer as it’s quite aggressively edited), and Sajjaad opens with the question every channel seems contractually obligated to ask in 2026: will AI replace software engineers?

Hejlsberg’s answer was about as gentle as you’d expect from a man who has spent fifty years building the foundations everyone else takes for granted: