Gartner, the research and advisory firm, said in its latest report that GenAI will spawn new roles in software engineering and operations through 2027, requiring 80% of the engineering workforce to upskill.
The report analyses the impact of AI engineering on the daily functioning of software development organisations and notes that it significantly increases productivity by performing smaller tasks and helping senior developers in big organisations.
Philip Walsh, senior principal analyst at the research firm, elaborated on the need for human intervention in the development of complex software.
Looking further, AI could automate more tasks, thus changing the working environment for current developers. Most of the mid-level coding would be done by AI, and humans would need to be prompt in senior-level engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). This technique combines the strengths of information retrieval and natural language generation (NLG).
Looking at the long-term effect, AI will majorly integrate into the software industry, and AI engineering will play …