From coders to AI auditors: Agentic AI rewriting roles of India's IT workforce

INDIA'S IT workforce is undergoing a structural shift.

- PADMINI DHRUVARAJ @ Bengaluru

Software engineers who used to spend their time writing and debugging code are increasingly moving into supervisory roles as agentic AI takes over core development tasks.Recently, even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on X: “I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character by character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.”