No funeral, but baptism by fire for IT industry: There will be a bloodbath, and smaller human cores supervising fleets of AI agents will take over
No funeral, but baptism by fire for IT industry: There will be a bloodbath, and smaller human cores supervising fleets of AI agents will take over A week before Open AI announced the appointment of Arvind KC as its chief people officer on Wednesday, Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, told Y Combinator’s Lightcone podcast (tinyurl.com/5n8wud6d): ‘Today, coding is practically solved for me,’ and predicted that we will start to see the ‘software engineer’ title ‘go away’. Last May, Dario Amodei had already predicted that 50% of jobs will go away. Arvind takes on his new role as a key interface between human and cutting-edge AI in the same month when India’s bellwether IT names sold off hard amid a fresh wave of ‘AI will eat IT’ anxiety. TCS hit a 52-week low in a sharp drop, with the broader Nifty IT pack also sliding, and significant value wiped out across the index constituents. US-listed IT-services names such as Accenture and Cognizant also fell on...