> Jobs are being eliminated within the IT function which are routine and mundane, such as reporting, clerical administration.
I've had a similar thought recently, that there is no demand for rote programmers. No employer is going to hand you a completed spec and tell you to code it up.
Software engineers and data scientists today must be innovative, understand the business they operate in, communicate with users, and work cross functionally. You’ve got to create something original and see it through without having to be told what to do at every step.
Personally, I'd classify jobs such as reporting and clerical administration more as 'admin' then IT. You do some of that as a SWE (tickets, SoW, Design docs) but that's not generally the focus of the work.
How much of this is really due to AI? I sense that layoffs generally are being spun as AI related rather than conceding that there's a downturn or that workers in a sector are not as valuable as they claim.
I've had a similar thought recently, that there is no demand for rote programmers. No employer is going to hand you a completed spec and tell you to code it up.
Software engineers and data scientists today must be innovative, understand the business they operate in, communicate with users, and work cross functionally. You’ve got to create something original and see it through without having to be told what to do at every step.