Companies leaning on AI coding assistants will hire fewer junior developers, interns, and in some cases, product managers, as AI takes over those roles, she says. “When you have big teams, you always have A players and B players, and hopefully not C players, but they exist,” she says. “AI, in some ways, makes it harder to be a C or a B player.”
The remaining developers will need to be critical thinkers who understand the business needs and can work in cross-functional teams with product specialists, the marketing department, and other employees.
Developers as editors
Demeo already sees some client companies reorganizing their dev teams around AI, with senior developers or software architects overseeing and tweaking AI-generated code, she says. She compared the change impacting various roles to the process of publishing a novel.
