Everyone Codes Now - How AI is Democratizing Software
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI have become the cornerstone of technological innovation, reshaping industries and revolutionizing traditional business models. The software industry, in particular, has undergone a profound transformation driven by AI’s capabilities—enabling enhanced efficiencies, new growth opportunities, and disruptive change. This shift is so dramatic that even Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI Director and OpenAI co-founder, recently wrote that he has “never felt this much behind as a programmer” and that the profession is being “dramatically refactored” as AI takes over more of the coding work, urging engineers to master a new “programmable layer of abstraction” built around agents, prompts, tools, and integrations. In this article, I will explore how AI is redefining the software IT industry, along with recent examples illustrating its impact. AI is streamlining every phase of the software development lifecycle—from coding and debugging to testi...