She says companies that rely on AI coding assistants will likely hire fewer junior developers, interns, and even product managers, as AI takes over those roles. “In large teams, you always have A players and B players, and hopefully no C players, but they do exist,” she says. “AI, in some ways, makes it harder to be a C player or a B player.”
The remaining developers need to be critical thinkers who understand business needs and can work in cross-functional teams with product specialists, marketing, and other employees.
Developers as editors
DeMeo said he’s already seeing some of his clients reorganize their development teams around AI, with senior developers and software architects overseeing and tweaking the AI-generated code, and he likened the changes affecting different roles to the process of publishing a novel.
