Do you think agentic AI (AI Agents) will eventually replace developers, or will it become a tool to enhance their capabilities?

9.1k viewscircle icon10 Comments
Sort by:
Director of ITa month ago

Both. Agentic for the repetitive tasks, plus quality assurance etc. Agentic to autonomously create code - we have agents doing this today.

vCISO and COO in Softwarea month ago

agentic AI will transform the senior developer's workbench, providing incredibly powerful tools that make them more efficient, more productive, and enable them to tackle more ambitious projects. The job won't disappear, but the nature of the work will undoubtedly shift and evolve. Not sure what will happen to junior developers as the basic code and code checking can be done in AI.

IT Managera month ago

Replace developers?  No.  The problem with Agentic AI is the context.  Although they are getting better, they still lack a lot of context, and because of this, introduce a lot of mistakes (some of them very subtle).  AI does great on "grunt" work of scaffolding, test cases, reviewing errors logs, and wrapping classes with try/catch or logging, for example, but I would not trust it for real software engineering.  There is a lot of hype around this right now, and all the shouting and promising are really muddying the waters.  If I stare into my crystal ball for a prediction, I see AI becoming the tool used to get past a lot of the repetition work, and allow developers to become sharper, more focused engineers. Right now, a lot of companies are starting to realize the ROI on AI is not as cut and dry as promised. Costs add up and output isn't matching.  So, "replace" is the wrong word, I think AI will force developers to be better engineers and allow them to focus more on solving the business problems at hand, and will be another tool in the belt to develop faster, but not replace.  

IT Analysta month ago

AI agents will handle the repetitive stuff, freeing devs to focus on creativity and strategy.

Data Manager6 months ago

my personal opinion is that, agentic AI (agents) would be used for business use cases (automate business processes) rather than development relates use cases. AI tools like co-pilot (embedded into github) could very well augment some basic and common tasks handled by dev teams.

Content you might like

High likelihood - We're planning significant adoption across departments9%

Moderate likelihood - We're considering adoption for specific purposes69%

Undecided or no specific plans9%

Low likelihood - We're acknowledging benefits but not prioritizing purchasing them4%

Very low likelihood - We have no immediate plans for integration6%

View Results

Cursor28%

Windsurf53%

Replit8%

No, I stick to traditional ChatGPT / Claude / CoPilot11%

View Results