While the internet took over 10 years to reach a billion users and smartphones five years, AI adoption is occurring in just a couple of years – Nandan Nilekani

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And writing codes will no longer be the central role for tech professionals, Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani said .

AI, he said, is being adopted faster than any previous technological transition, from the internet to smartphones, and is poised to fundamentally reshape how businesses operate. How tech jobs will change
“Talent will have to deal with a world where writing code will not be the goal. “It’ll actually be making AI work, orchestration, and those kinds of things,” Nilekani said at Infosys’ Investor Day.

“Customer journeys, operating models, and mental models all have to change. Every enterprise must rethink how it operates.”

While coding may end, new jobs will be created.

The talent transformation is huge, he said adding there will be a need for AI engineers, forward deployment engineers, forensic analysts – roles that didn’t exist a few years ago.

The real challenge
Greenfield coding productivity is not the real challenge.

The real world is managing trillions of dollars in legacy systems with undocumented dependencies, he said.

He highlighted the unprecedented speed of AI adoption, noting that while the internet took over a decade to reach a billion users and smartphones five years, AI adoption is happening in just a couple of years, enabled by the infrastructure of prior tech eras.

“While the internet took over 10 years to reach a billion users and smartphones five years, AI adoption is occurring in just a couple of years,” he said.