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61/100 career outlook
Mixed picture. AI will change how you work, but the role itself is growing. Lean into the parts only you can do.
38% ai exposure+15.8% job growth
job growth
+15.8%
2024–2034
employed (2024)
1,693,800
people
annual openings
115,200
per year
ai exposure
28.8%
Anthropic index
how you compare
career outlook vs similar roles
1/2
the full picture
AI will handle a meaningful chunk of your work, especially around data analysis, requirements gathering, and system planning. But here's the reality: these tasks are the groundwork, not the whole job. You'll spend less time on pure analysis and more time on what AI can't do yet.
Your irreplaceable work is where you actually lead. Monitoring system performance, coordinating installations, supervising teams, training users, evaluating hardware needs based on real constraints. These require judgment, accountability, and the ability to manage people and complexity. AI can suggest solutions. You decide if they work in your actual environment.
The shift means your role evolves from solo contributor to more of a systems leader. You'll work faster on the analytical parts but spend more energy on oversight, team coordination, and the decisions that only someone with real skin in the game can make. The demand for developers is still growing, but the best positioned are those who can move between hands-on work and leadership.
task breakdown
this is all you
8
tasks where you're irreplaceable
- Monitor functioning of equipment to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
- Coordinate installation of software system.
- Supervise the work of programmers, technologists and technicians and other engineering and scientific personnel.
- Supervise and assign work to programmers, designers, technologists, technicians, or other engineering or scientific personnel.
- Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as reporting formats required, costs, or security needs to determine hardware configuration.
- Train users to use new or modified equipment.
- Develop or direct software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation.
- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
ai speeds this up
3
tasks AI can assist with
- Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status.
- Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.
- Consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, or technical issues, such as software system design or maintenance.
ai handles this
3
tasks with high AI penetration
- Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system.