Remember When Developers Reigned Supreme? The Market for Software Coding Goes Soft

Reporter Grant Gross, CIO.com, provides an overview of the current programming landscape and includes Smoothstack’s CTO Prashanth Ram’s insights, below:

Over the past decade, GitLab has never been able to hire as many developers as it has positions for, Farmer adds. 

Prashanth Ram, CTO at IT training and engineer placement firm Smoothstack, agrees AI won’t eliminate the need for developers. Coding assistants are increasing developer productivity levels but not replacing them, he says.

Ram sees high demand for developers with specific domain knowledge such as healthcare, finance, and IT specialties like AI, security, and cloud architecture.

“What we’re seeing isn’t a plateau in demand, but rather an evolution in what makes a developer valuable,” he says. “The most successful developers today combine technical prowess with business understanding, communication skills, and adaptability to changing technologies.”

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