Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son: "The era of human programmers is coming to an end" "The era when humans program is nearing its end within our group", says Softbank founder Masayoshi Son. "Our aim is to have AI agents completely take over coding and programming. (...) we are currently initiating the process for that." Softbank will send the first billion AI agents to work this year "The agents will be active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and will interact with each other", said Son. They will learn independently and gather information. The Japanese businessman expects the AI agents to be significantly more productive and efficient than humans. They would cost only 40 Japanese yen (currently around 23 euro cents) per month. Based on the stated figure of 1,000 agents per employee, this amounts to 230 euros per month instead of a salary for one person."