While startups may favor experienced coders, large companies will remain interested in hiring younger staff to maintain a solid pipeline of mid-to-senior-level staff, said Michael Spector, CEO of cybersecurity workforce development firm BCR Cyber. He expects that many of the tech job losses will come from smaller companies that adopt AI to save money. The future hiring market may see small companies poach mid-level executives from large corporations, instead of workers beginning their careers at startups and moving into corporate roles.
Baltimore-based BCR has begun to alter its courses to fit employer demands for staff who know how to use AI as a tool, introducing an AI course this year. The implementation of AI will have different impacts on different sub-sectors of computer science, though. Cybersecurity is relatively insulated from the fallout because of liability concerns around AI being in charge of sensitive data, Spector added, especially since the software is still prone to hallucinations and other errors that limit its effectiveness.
“These companies would be jeopardizing themselves significantly (if they rely on AI) and they recognize that,” he said. “They need somebody to watch over (AI) until it’s bulletproof and it’s not yet.”
