u/Maleficent_Mess6445

Do you understand the job equation?

AI has caused job loss in software but it should create new jobs as the industry is expanding at a very high speed. But what is happening currently and what do you think is causing the imbalance?

I think AI industry is much leaner and need only few people even for very large projects. More employees means chaos in AI industry. OpenAI and Anthropic has only 3000 employees each. DeepSeek has 150 employees.

Moreover large number people are trying to switch from software to AI jobs that is causing chaos in job market. Even the CEO/ Hiring manager seem to confused whom to hire because they don't know what to look for in the candidates because the technology is also evolving very fast. What was great thing last year has no value this year. Example is RAG.

Conclusion: Software will be part of every business's internal operation like computers. In the beginning computers were owned by few and needed specialized computer operators but not anymore and adoption rate of AI will be much higher because internet computer, mobile technology have already advanced the development.

What is your take?

All business will adopt AI like they adopted computers but it may be slow in some industries and fast in others. That is where AI professionals will be needed. However they will have limited budget for same and would only pay wrt their organisational policies.

India's IT industry operates on a flawed model of labor arbitrage. It was never resilient and is bound to collapse. However the demand for software and AI remains high and will increase as business owners will understand its value. This will create opportunities for AI entrepreneurs and professionals in Non Tech Industries where the advancements have not reached.

Do you understand the job equation?

AI has caused job loss in software but it should create new jobs as the industry is expanding at a very high speed. But what is happening currently and what do you think is causing the imbalance?

I think AI industry is much leaner and need only few people even for very large projects. More employees means chaos in AI industry. OpenAI and Anthropic has only 3000 employees each. DeepSeek has 150 employees.

Moreover large number people are trying to switch from software to AI jobs that is causing chaos in job market. Even the CEO/ Hiring manager seem to confused whom to hire because they don't know what to look for in the candidates because the technology is also evolving very fast. What was great thing last year has no value this year. Example is RAG.

Conclusion: Software will be part of every business's internal operation like computers. In the beginning computers were owned by few and needed specialized computer operators but not anymore and adoption rate of AI will be much higher because internet computer, mobile technology have already advanced the development.

What is your take?

I mean how many can genuinely afford to sit back one year without having any EMI backlogs. There is no way you can learn AI and new technology without that. Many disagree with that but I have seen those who claim to know AI well but are no better than freshers in their capabilities.

I see almost all of Indian IT industry boast about their LPA or telling others that their LPA is less whereas programmers in other countries don't do it at all, no one talks about their salaries like this, they talk about their skill set, challenges, GitHub repositories etc. What a foolish thing it is to talk about your salary day and night and asking everybody else's salary. It is utterly disgusting behaviour and people in IT industry consider it normal.

Are Indian IT people having even one year of their first job's LPA in their bank account for emergency? If they cannot afford to live for one year without job then they are biggest fools on earth because it is the most fragile industry of all. A minor recession or change in technology can cause merciless layoffs anytime.