Business | Changing the program

AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world

Their code will get cheaper. So might they

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Illustration: Rose Wong

Two big shifts are under way in the world of software development. Since the launch of Chatgpt in 2022, bosses have been falling over themselves to try to find ways to use generative artificial intelligence (AI). Most efforts have yielded little, but one exception is programming. Surveys suggest that developers around the world find generative ai so useful that already about two-fifths of them use it.

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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Changing the program”

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