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April 17-if technologies like ChatGPT replace software engineers, India will be the hardest hit, with more than 5 million programmers.

Although this possibility is very remote, people like Palash Hade can also lose sleep all night. The new engineer from central India predicts that there will be fewer software jobs and more competitive pressure in a country with a population of 1.4 billion.

Hade signed up for an online degree in data science and analytics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, hoping to help him stand out in a highly competitive job market.

Not long ago, Indian outsourcing companies were eager for talent and attached great importance to recruiting new people, so long as they could adapt to internal coding exercises, it didn't matter whether the background was chemistry or mining. These outsourcing companies build software systems for customers around the world, such as Wall Street banks, Silicon Valley technology giants and the world's largest airlines and retailers.

N. Ganapathy Subramaniam, chief operating officer of Tata Consulting Services Ltd., the largest outsourcing company in India (and Asia), says the company has provided 46000 campus recruitment jobs this year. In recent conversations, he says, every customer is talking about generative artificial intelligence and ChatGPT.

CP Gurnani, CEO of Tech Mahindra, a 40-year veteran of India's IT services industry, says change is coming quickly because of advanced artificial intelligence. In a speech at the Indian Institute of Technology at Hyderabad last week, he found that students were very worried. His advice is: get ready.

For Gurnani, the question is not whether AI will replace existing jobs, but how new technologies will accelerate the creation of new jobs and opportunities while replacing old roles.

Y Narahari, a programming professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, India's top university, offers another view. He says his students are not worried about AI because they may design new systems, compete with GPT models, or be recruited by OpenAI.

But tens of thousands of engineers from non-top schools have reason to worry that a decline in routine programming work is looming.

Shraddha Kulkarni, a 21-year-old engineering student in Bangalore, has been using ChatGPT actively. The student said that without the help of AI, programming would not be possible. She believes that within five years, many entry-level programming jobs may disappear.

Kulkarni was selected by the technology department of a global company for this year's campus recruitment campaign, but she declined to give the company's name. For next year's graduates, the outlook remains to be seen, she said.

Anxiety is also rife on Reddit and Quora, with developers complaining that they spend hundreds of hours studying messy documents and obscure blogs to build their skills. They are now well aware that artificial intelligence-based programming competitors have emerged.

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