Emad Mostaque, CEO of a Indian Stability AI company, recently said that most of India’s coders will lose their jobs due to AI disruption. “In India, outsourced coders up to level three programmers will be gone in the next year or two, whereas in France, you’ll never fire a developer.”
According to a Bloomberg report, “India is home to more than 5 million software programmers, who are most under threat from the impacts of advanced AI tools like ChatGPT”.
During a interview with USB analysts, Mostaque said to have predicted that most outsourced coder jobs in India would be wiped out within two years, CNBC writes.
During his interview, Mostaque told:
- “I think that it affects different types of jobs in different ways.
- “If you’re doing a job in front of a computer, and no one ever sees you, then it’s massively impactful, because these models are like really talented grads.
- “In India, outsourced coders up to level three programmers will be gone in the next year or two, whereas in France, you’ll never fire a developer.
- “So it affects different models in different countries in different ways in different sectors.
- “Why would you have to write code where the computer can write code better? When you deconstruct the programming thing from bug testing to unit testing to ideation, an AI can do that, just better.
- “But it won’t be doing it automatically, it will be AI ‘co-pilots. That means less people are needed for classical programming, but then are they needed for other things? This is the question and this is the balance that we have to understand, because different areas are also affected differently.”
India’s Tata Consultancy Services CEO N. Ganapathy Subramaniam, told CNBC “the company began taking a “machine-first” approach to project delivery about four years ago and it showed how AI will make an enormous impact on the way that we operate and the way that we do things. Generative AI has just advanced it by a few years.”