There have been fears that AI would impact the software engineering job market, but business leaders are now openly talking about job losses to AI.
Inmobi CEO Naveen Tiwari has said that 80 percent of coding at Inmobi will end up being automated by the end of 2025. This will mean that many human software engineers will lose their jobs.
“I think my software engineers will go away. They will not have jobs within two years,” Tewari said at an event. “My CTO (chief technology officer) will deliver 80% automation in software coding by the end of this year. We have already achieved 50%. The codes created by the machine are faster and better, and they fix themselves,” he added.
Tewari urgently called on professionals to upgrade themselves, saying that artificial intelligence (AI) will first come for the highly specialized jobs. “Upgrade yourself, don’t ask me to upgrade you. Because this is survival. The world underneath you is shifting,” he said, referring to employees.
Naveen Tewari isn’t the only tech leader who has voiced concern about coding jobs. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that by the end of the year, an AI will be the world’s best programmer. Former Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has said that AI is already better than outsourced Indian programmers, and Replit CEO Amjad Masad has said that AI will be able to replicate a software engineer’s job by 2027. There has been impact in the real world too — Salesforce is not hiring any software engineers this year because of gains from AI. And with Inmobi saying that 80 percent of its code will be written by AI by the end of 2025, and will likely lead to layoffs within its software engineering workforce, the disruption from AI to the software engineering sector might be much closer than most people think.