DeepSeek Engineer’s Essay on AI Replacing His Craft Tops Zhihu

This is less about one engineer's career move than about the internal culture of a leading AI lab: the person who delivered a core operator is publicly betting his own role gets automated within a year. That candour, and the Zhihu reception it drew, matters because it signals how fast frontier labs expect their own tooling to shift, and it frames the retraining question from the inside rather than as outside commentary. Whether that self-displacement timeline holds, and whether agent-operator roles absorb the work as described, is the open question.