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From coders to AI auditors: Agentic AI rewriting roles of India's IT workforce
The New Indian Express Kannur
|March 19, 2026
INDIA'S IT workforce is undergoing a structural shift.
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.”
This story is from the March 19, 2026 edition of The New Indian Express Kannur.
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