- The job offers for software engineers are at their lowest level in five years, in fact, the data shows.
- Marc Benioff said that Salesforce may not hire software engineers in 2025 due to AI gains.
- Despite the impact of the AI, the demand for qualified technological workers is expected to increase considerably by 2033.
If you are a coder, you already know: there are simply not as many jobs as before.
The openings for software engineers in the United States are down more than a third compared to five years ago.
For many engineers, the deposit is probably even more steep. Employment assignments are well disabled during the pandemic, when the industry was flooded in the openings.
From the start to mid-2022, there were three times more software engineering roles listed in the employment panels, Free data displayed.
Artificial intelligence is surely a cause. The same technology that can make coders more productive seems to be an undervaluation of the demand for hiring.
The CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, recently declared that the technology giant could engage no engineer in 2025 because the tools of AI allow the engineers of Salesforce to do much more.
“We saw such incredible productivity gains because of agents working side by side with our engineers,” said Benioff on the podcast “The Logan Bartlet Show” in January.
“Will I lose my job?”
Productivity gains are excellent news for coders with jobs, but AI boost can be worrying for job seekers.
A year ago, the Startup Cognition Labs published what he said was the first IA software engineer. The company, supported by the venture capital fund of Peter Thiel, caused a sensation with its announcement.
“There was a lot of panic. I had a lot of friends who sent me a message and said:” Hey, will I lose my job? “” Jesal Gadhia, head of engineering at the thoughtful AI, who creates AI tools for health care providers, previously told Business Insider.
He is concerned that even if the coders are still necessary in many areas, the AI could occupy roles which have long served as a training ground for junior engineers.
“Junior engineers,” said Gadhia, “are a little target behind their back.”
Demand is likely to grow
This is not all bad news for those who have strong technical chops. At the end of August, the American government’s labor statistics office provides that the demand for software developers, quality insurance analysts and testers would increase from 17% from 2023 to 2033. It is much faster than the growth of the global labor market, the agency noted.
Lighthouse Labs, a Canadian company offering coding coding camps, said in January that the global demand for skilled workers in data analysis, cybersecurity and cloud computing exceeds the supply. No surprise, some of the greatest gains involve AI. Lighthouse Labs said that it was partly because there is a demand for people with skills in areas like automatic learning far beyond the technological industry itself.
AI to do more work
Whatever the industry, the requests for the time of the coders will probably continue to evolve due to the AI. Gitlab said the developers were already spending only about a quarter of their time to code.
Madars Biss, technological writer and Developer Fronend, previously told Bi that he expects the developers to spend less time generating code and more time managing the code generated by AI.
AI tools could “manage a large part of the developer routine and repetitive tasks, and humans focus on management, double recovery and creativity,” said Biss.
As with Salesforce, this could change the way companies hire software engineers.
In June, Amazon’s web services chief Matt Garman predicted that AI could manage a lot of coders work, according to a recording of the discussion previously obtained by Bi.
“If you are going ahead in 24 months, or a little time – I cannot predict exactly where it is – it is possible that most of the developers did not code,” said Garman.
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