Artificial intelligence will not leave programmers jobless, but it will significantly change their responsibilities. Instead of mass layoffs, IT is experiencing a "mutation" of specialties, stated Natalya Kaspersky, President of InfoWatch.
Developers are increasingly using neural networks as executors: breaking down tasks into parts, formulating queries, and then checking and assembling the results. Manual code writing is decreasing, but the volume of control over AI is growing.
It will not be possible to fully hand over work to algorithms due to their tendency to "hallucinate." Generative models can confidently produce errors and strange answers, so specialists are still needed to identify problems.
An "ecosystem" of people is growing around AI, who begin to deal solely with its management. Specialties are mutating, changing due to the influence of AI.
In her opinion, mass layoffs of programmers due to neural networks would be ineffective. Rather, the market will gain new roles at the intersection of development, task setting, and AI quality control.