Agreeing that a new phase in the tech industry may have already begun, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke said that he and his company are not worried over the fact AI may be taking over half of all engineering jobs.
The startling admission comes at a time when developers around the world face growing concerns and struggles with Artificial Intelligence software automating several tasks, leading to companies laying off portions of their workforce.
In talks with the Economic Times, Dohmke stated that instead of worrying about job displacement, people should adapt to new skills and technologies. Furthermore, he stated that the shift to AI is generating new sorts of jobs that people must switch over to.
“And we’re not worried about AI taking away half the engineering jobs. I think we’re much more worried that AI has added additional skills and challenges to what a full-stack engineer has to do today,” he told the Economic Times.
Dohmke believed that areas such as prompt engineering and developing new AI tools are the new sectors that people must focus on.
Prompt engineering refers to learning what prompts and instructions to give to an AI tool like Copilot or ChatGPT to ensure accurate and efficient results. As such, the tech CEO may have hinted developers to shift from writing codes to prompts, a sector in which companies may soon start offering full-time jobs.
Incidentally, his company, owned by Microsoft Corporation, was among the first major ones to roll out free AI tools to the general public. GitHub Copilot, an AI-based automation tool, was recently pushed widely to the massive developer base on the code-hosting website, allowing people to write codes with ease or even let AI write them.
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