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No, AI isn't stealing your tech job - it's just transforming it

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BCG says AI is moving faster than workforce strategies.

IT jobs are the most likely to be transformed by gen AI.

Yet AI may help elevate the roles of tech professionals.

Technology professionals' experiences with artificial intelligence are "harbingers of change in the workplace," suggested a recent BCG report. So, are people in the technology sector, ready or not, blazing the path that everyone will be following in the near future with AI? And what lessons can they share?

The challenge is that AI is moving faster than companies' workforce strategies, stated the report, put together by a team of BCG analysts led by Julie Bedard. "Tech workers -- being so close to AI-driven changes -- are the first to be affected," they reported.

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Today, autonomous AI agents are already handling "complex, end-to-end tasks, such as coding, testing, analysis -- with human oversight," they stated.

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