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Will AI take a Software Engineer's job?

85
CRITICAL
% of tasks AI-exposed · estimate

Update the résumé. Today.

A model can already do the core of a software engineer's work faster, cheaper, and without lunch breaks — the only question is how fast employers notice.

Doomsday year (estimate)

2028

AI tools already doing parts of it

Cursor · Copilot · Devin

How a software engineer stays ahead of AI

Safer pivot: Staff engineer / architect.

Step one: Become AI-native now: ship 3x with agentic coding tools or fall behind peers who do.

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How we score it

The 85% figure is real AI task-exposure for a software engineer from the AI Work Index (blending AIOE, the Anthropic Economic Index, Eloundou et al. and the ILO). High exposure means AI can do many of the tasks — it isn't a prediction that the job disappears, and it isn't career advice. How we score →