Amazon (AMZN) Web Services CEO Matt Garman has just revealed a startling prediction about the future of a popular career.
During an internal meeting, which Business Insider obtained leaked audio of, Garman told software developers at Amazon Web Services that artificial intelligence could take over a significant portion of their jobs in roughly two years.
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“If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time – I can’t exactly predict where it is – it’s possible that most developers are not coding,” said Garman during the meeting.
He claimed that because of AI, software developers will most likely have to “innovate” and update their skill set since being a developer in 2025 “may be different” than what it was in 2020.
“It just means that each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we’re going to try to go build, because that’s going to be more and more of what the work is as opposed to sitting down and actually writing code,” said Garman.
The Amazon Q AWS artificial intelligence homepage is seen in this illustration photo taken in Warsaw, Poland on Dec. 5, 2023.
Coding, which is a part of software engineering, is a job that involves teaching computers how to complete tasks through programming language, and it can pay up to six figures a year, according to estimates from Indeed.
Garman isn’t the first executive at a major company to reveal the threat that AI can have on the future of software engineering. During the World Government Summit in February this year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called AI a “miracle” for computer programming.
“Over the course of the last 10 years, 15 years, almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you it is vital that your children learn computer science, everybody should learn how to program,” said Huang during the summit. “In fact, it’s almost exactly the opposite. It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program.”
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As AI is rapidly evolving, many companies across different industries are planning to replace jobs with the technology in an effort to cut costs. According to a recent report for Goldman Sachs, it is estimated that AI could replace about 300 million full-time jobs in the U.S. and Europe by 2030.
Many employees across the country are growing concerned about job stability amid the boom of AI. According to a recent survey from CNBC and SurveyMonkey, 42% of U.S. workers are concerned about the impact AI will have on their jobs. The survey also notes that “workers of color, individual contributors, and lower-salaried workers” were most concerned about the threat AI poses on their employment.
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