{"id":91995,"date":"2026-02-17T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.einnews.com\/article\/893036945"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:31:06","slug":"ai-will-redefine-tech-jobs-coding-will-not-be-nilekani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/ai-will-redefine-tech-jobs-coding-will-not-be-nilekani\/","title":{"rendered":"AI will redefine tech jobs, coding will not be..: Nilekani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nandan Nilekani said AI is being adopted faster than any previous technological transition, from the internet to smartphones, and is poised to fundamentally reshape how businesses operate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=758893364  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Nandan Nilekani\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/mlmjbqro95r8.i.optimole.com\/cb:bOxR.6a5\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/im.rediff.com\/money\/2022\/dec\/15nandan-nilekani.jpg?w=670&h=900&ssl=1\" alt=\"Nandan Nilekani\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgcaption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photograph: Abhishek N Chinappa\/Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"keypoints\">\n<h3>Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>While coding may end, new jobs will be created.<\/li>\n<li>Many large companies spend 60 per cent to 80 per cent of their IT budget on maintenance.<\/li>\n<li>AI gives us the tools to modernise fast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rediff.com\/business\/column\/is-ai-really-boosting-indias-economy\/20260212.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Artifical Intelligence<\/a> is rewriting the grammar of software development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rbig\">And writing codes will no longer be the central role for tech professionals, Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>AI, he said, is being adopted faster than any previous technological transition, from the internet to smartphones, and is poised to fundamentally reshape how businesses operate.<\/p>\n<h2>How tech jobs will change<\/h2>\n<p class=\"rbig\">&#8220;Talent will have to deal with a world where writing code will not be the goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;ll actually be making AI work, orchestration, and those kinds of things,&#8221; Nilekani said at Infosys&#8217; Investor Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customer journeys, operating models, and mental models all have to change. Every enterprise must rethink how it operates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While coding may end, new jobs will be created.<\/p>\n<p>The talent transformation is huge, he said adding there will be a need for AI engineers, forward deployment engineers, forensic analysts &#8211; roles that didn&#8217;t exist a few years ago.<\/p>\n<h2>The real challenge<\/h2>\n<p class=\"rbig\">Greenfield coding productivity is not the real challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The real world is managing trillions of dollars in legacy systems with undocumented dependencies, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the unprecedented speed of AI adoption, noting that while the internet took over a decade to reach a billion users and smartphones five years, AI adoption is happening in just a couple of years, enabled by the infrastructure of prior tech eras.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the internet took over 10 years to reach a billion users and smartphones five years, AI adoption is occurring in just a couple of years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each technology transition has had implications, but this time, it&#8217;s a fundamental change in the way businesses operate. Customer journeys, operating models, talent &#8211; everything has to change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Why legacy system modernisation can&#8217;t be deferred<\/h2>\n<p class=\"rbig\">Nilekani stressed that legacy system modernisation can no longer be deferred, citing high maintenance costs, siloed data, and rising security risks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accumulated tech debt over decades must be paid. You no longer have the option to defer this,&#8221; he said, noting that AI provides tools to modernize faster and more economically, though implementation remains complex.<\/p>\n<p>He also emphasized the shift from buying software to building AI solutions, with enterprises layering agentic AI interfaces on existing systems to simplify customer journeys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foundational systems will increasingly become systems of record, but the interface will be agentic,&#8221; Nilekani said.<\/p>\n<p>On legacy systems and modernisation, he said accumulated tech debt over decades must be paid.<\/p>\n<p>Many large companies spend 60 per cent to 80 per cent of their IT budget on maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>That has zero business value. It&#8217;s time to flip the ratio.<\/p>\n<h2>Implementation is the hard part<\/h2>\n<p class=\"rbig\">AI gives us the tools to modernise fast, economically, and at scale &#8211; but implementation is the hard part, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the deployment gap between AI capabilities and enterprise implementation, he noted the urgent need for talent transformation, change management, and cleanup of technical debt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about using AI tools. It&#8217;s about productivity out of those tools. Otherwise, you&#8217;ll get false productivity,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nilekani concluded that enterprises must adopt first-principle thinking, agnostic system design, and cross-firm collaboration to harness AI successfully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opportunity is bigger than ever before, but the risk is in execution, not in the opportunity itself,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\"> <\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the central role for <span class=\"match\">tech<\/span> professionals, Infosys co-founder &#8230; how businesses operate. \u00c2\u00a0 How <span class=\"match\">tech<\/span> jobs will change &quot;Talent &#8230; he said. &quot;Each <span class=\"match\">technology<\/span> transition has had implications, but &#8230; security risks. &quot;Accumulated <span class=\"match\">tech<\/span> debt over decades must be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}