80% software engineers could lose jobs to AI if they don’t upskill, Gartner analysts warn

Over 80 per cent of software engineers need to pick up new skills such as natural-language prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in order to secure their jobs amid the generative AI boom, according to analysts at Gartner Inc.

In a recently published note, the global research firm said that AI was not going to replace software engineers but spawn new roles for them.