Software development and tech services in the cross-hairs as AI marches on

Business transformation, software development, and technology implementation are among the tech job categories likely to be hit hardest by AI, according to new research from Forrester. The global IT analyst company has researched how AI will disrupt various activities within the tech market, both among end users and vendors. …

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm…

I wonder if ChatGPT could write Forrester reports?

[gv]

Implementation work

“Direct AI substitution reduces core implementation work. Services to implement Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and Workday all showed headwinds."

This sound appealing at a superficial level, but no two businesses are the same, never mind implementing the same product in radically different industries.

My take would be that it might reduce some core implementation, it is likely to increase other parts and definitely the testing part.

[Tron]

AI is not mandatory.

Feel free to ignore it, entirely, or until it becomes reliable and cheap. You, your company and your customers do not have to pay to be crash test dummies for iffy software that is still in beta.

[MonkeyJuice]

Re: AI is not mandatory.

I wonder how much technical debt we'll have accumulated by the time the bubble pops and everyone is priced out of this stuff? The enterprise sector seems to be one workforce 'streamline' away from finding out the hard way.

[Smartypantz]

Double Whammy

I would love to see how a complex migration project (for example) looks like if one AI borked and another one tried to fix the thing.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Double Whammy

You joke, but I’m experiencing the same”how do you debug AI code?” problem…

AI doesn’t make mistakes in the way a normal way developer does…

[amanfromMars 1]

Escaped Mk Ultra Top Secret to Fake Taking Umbrage at.

Was there any other very good reason, apart from not wanting to unduly worry and terrify or please and excite the natives, for not including in the targeting sights of AI Takeovers and Makeovers, Governments and Propaganda, ..... for Broken Hearts and Frazzled Minds Capture and Enrapture Programming/Projects/Operations/Missions, ...... or is the HumanITy Business Program genuinely ignorant of the fact or somewhat mortified and absolutely petrified by the development/possibility/prospect?

Although to be as perfectly honest as any being can be, knowing the truths of that matter does not alter the course and result of future outcomes or events.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Escaped Mk Ultra Top Secret to Fake Taking Umbrage at.

You're clearly part of a new CIA MK-ULTRA program. Merely attempting to read that gave me a stroke.

[amanfromMars 1]

Re: Escaped Mk Ultra Top Secret to Fake Taking Umbrage at.

You're clearly part of a new CIA MK-ULTRA program. Merely attempting to read that gave me a stroke. ..... Anonymous coward

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