One of the most discussed questions is ” Will AI impact my IT Job”. This is important not only for an IT employee but also for students who are keen to take up Computer Science or allied branches and aspiring for an IT Job later. Time to plan
In this article we will analyze the impact of AI on IT.
At a broad level we will classify IT jobs into 3 categories :
- Development or programming related
- IT Infrastructure related
- Governance and business development.
We understand that programming will be slowly making an exit due to AI. There might not be need for programmers as AI will be able to do all the programming . However jobs related to architecting, designing a solution, conceptualizing etc. will continue to be there.
On the IT infrastructure front, it is very much required even for supporting AI. IT Infrastructure related jobs may be further classified as :
- Incident management
- problem management
- Change Management
- In this, AI will replace all Incident management and monitoring related jobs. Possibly a reasonable portion of problem management can also be replaced.
- However change management , planning the IT infrastructure, capacity management will continue to remain.
On the business development front, since this include building and maintaining relationship with prospects , it will continue to be unaffected. However jobs related to following up with clients, maintaining trackers, sales operations will also get impacted.
Also program governance jobs will continue to be unaffected
A study by IMF says that 60 % of jobs will be impacted in developed economies and 40 % of jobs will be impacted in developing economies https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2024/01/14/ai-will-transform-the-global-economy-lets-make-sure-it-benefits-humanity.
Hence instead of just asking ” Will AI impact by IT Job” , it is important for individuals to learn AI to protect themselves or scale up towards jobs which will not be majorly impacted by AI.
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