{"id":2949,"date":"2026-10-23T10:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/10\/23\/everyone-is-talking-about-ai-taking-software-engineering-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:32:54","slug":"everyone-is-talking-about-ai-taking-software-engineering-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/10\/23\/everyone-is-talking-about-ai-taking-software-engineering-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone is talking about AI taking software engineering jobs."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ai-Applied-Engineer.png\" alt=\"Everyone is talking about AI taking software engineering jobs.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Everyone is talking about AI taking software engineering jobs.<br \/>\nBut the hiring data tells another story.<\/p>\n<p>September 2026 vs. September 2025:<br \/>\nOverall tech job postings: +17%<br \/>\nAI\/ML job postings: +88%<\/p>\n<p>AI\/ML postings are growing more than 5 times faster.<br \/>\nNow look at Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs):<\/p>\n<p>2023: Fewer than 200 U.S. job postings.<br \/>\n2025: Around 1,200.<br \/>\n2026: Over 7,300 in just nine months.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s advertising these jobs?<\/p>\n<p>Deloitte: 872 | Accenture: 688<br \/>\nGoogle: 499 | KPMG: 447<\/p>\n<p>Three of the four leading advertisers are consulting firms.<\/p>\n<p>Having spent over 20 years building IT services businesses, I find this shift particularly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Companies don&#8217;t just need engineers who can write code anymore.<br \/>\nThey need engineers who can make AI work inside real businesses.<\/p>\n<p>That means understanding customers, integrating systems, automating workflows and solving business problems.<\/p>\n<p>For software engineers worried about AI replacing their jobs, I see a different opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t just learn to code with AI. Learn to build solutions businesses will pay for.<\/p>\n<p>The next wave of technology careers may belong to engineers who understand both AI and business.<\/p>\n<p>Krishna Lakamsani | Serial Entrepreneur | Investor | I write at the intersection of AI, capital, and the future of the human job market,\u2028sharing my life lessons, reflections, and honest takes from the founder-investor&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is talking about AI taking software engineering jobs. But the hiring data tells another story. September 2026 vs. September&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}