{"id":482086,"date":"2026-06-04T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482086\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:41:09","slug":"i-built-an-ai-company-heres-why-ai-wont-kill-coding-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482086\/","title":{"rendered":"I Built an AI Company. Here\u2019s Why AI Won\u2019t Kill Coding Jobs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. My name is Hoan Ton-That, and I\u2019m addicted to Claude Code. I\u2019m a lifelong programmer and the founder and former CEO of Clearview AI, the country\u2019s first major facial recognition company that used AI, and where I wrote the first version of our software myself.<\/p>\n<p>When I started Clearview, it ended up landing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/18\/technology\/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the front page<\/a> of The New York Times in January 2020 with the headline \u201cThe Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It.\u201d We had built a groundbreaking facial recognition technology, which allowed law enforcement to search billions of public images just by uploading a photo of a face. The technology helped law enforcement solve crimes involving children, human trafficking, and financial fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction to our new technology raised concerns from privacy advocates and the public. Today\u2019s simultaneous fear and excitement around AI coding tools remind me of what I went through with Clearview, and what any new technology goes through.<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago I started using Claude Code, OpenAI\u2019s Codex, and Cursor. I\u2019m having the most fun I\u2019ve ever had programming, and I can now build software that used to take months in a matter of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi. My name is Hoan Ton-That, and I\u2019m addicted to Claude Code. I\u2019m a lifelong programmer and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-482086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}