AI in IT

In recent years, the increase in prevalence of AI, especially in the tech industry, has caused many to wonder if it can cause problems for the IT industry. Like with most problems, it’s a mix of both good and bad. On one hand, as can be seen with Microsoft copilot and apple intelligence, it’s clear that AI can be used as a sort of stack overflow replacement, helping make code for specific examples, that, while still needing a specialist to correctly understand the code, makes said specialist’s job much easier. However, it does come with drawbacks. Most corporation need efficiency, meaning all this innovation does is most likely keeping the workload for the average specialist the same or higher, but in turn reducing the number of jobs. This makes IT a weird career that is both getting easier to do, while also having the amount of jobs decrease.