Will AI Replace Software Developers?

Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Develop or direct software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation.

Software coding, programming, or application development task highly susceptible to automated generation.

Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design.

Software coding, programming, or application development task highly susceptible to automated generation.

Determine system performance standards.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, or technical issues, such as software system design or maintenance.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Confer with data processing or project managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities for data processing projects.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Monitor functioning of equipment to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Coordinate installation of software system.

Software coding, programming, or application development task highly susceptible to automated generation.

Supervise the work of programmers, technologists and technicians and other engineering and scientific personnel.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Supervise and assign work to programmers, designers, technologists, technicians, or other engineering or scientific personnel.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as reporting formats required, costs, or security needs to determine hardware configuration.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Train users to use new or modified equipment.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.