Although AI companies are soaring to multibillion-dollar valuations, job prospects in the tech industry are growing murkier. Computer programming employment in the U.S. is at its lowest level since 1980 as companies increasingly automate tasks. Some firms like Anthropic are already using AI for 100% of coding.
The speed of change has left even top tech leaders struggling to predict what comes next. Yamini Rangan, the CEO of a $15 billion software company, HubSpot, admits she doesn’t know what jobs will look like in an AI-enabled future—even in as little as two years from now.
