AI and Jobs

Is There a Future for Software Engineers? The Impact of AI [2025]

The skills that software developers need to be proficient on AI projects include math, algebra, calculus, statistics, big data, data mining, data science, machine learning, MLOps, cognitive computing, text analytics, natural language processing, R, Hadoop, Spark, and many others.

NY Times

...and that A.I. companies are racing to build “virtual workers” that can replace junior employees at a fraction of the cost.

One tech executive recently told me his company had stopped hiring anything below an L5 software engineer — a midlevel title typically given to programmers with three to seven years of experience — because lower-level tasks could now be done by A.I. coding tools.

Another told me that his start-up now employed a single data scientist to do the kinds of tasks that required a team of 75 people at his previous company.

The company claims that its most powerful model, Claude Opus 4, can now code for “several hours” without stopping — a tantalizing possibility if you’re a company accustomed to paying six-figure engineer salaries for that kind of productivity.