{"id":995224,"date":"2026-02-27T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995224"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:26:08","slug":"89-of-indian-engineers-feel-ai-ready-only-19-actually-build-ai-systems-scaler-cmr-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/89-of-indian-engineers-feel-ai-ready-only-19-actually-build-ai-systems-scaler-cmr-study\/","title":{"rendered":"89% of Indian engineers feel AI-ready, only 19% actually build AI systems: Scaler-CMR study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s engineering talent pool may be significantly overestimating its own AI readiness, according to a new joint study by edtech firm Scaler and CyberMedia Research (CMR) released on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The study, which surveyed 400 experienced software engineers and tech recruiters, found that while 89% of engineers consider themselves AI-ready, only 19% are deeply engaged in building AI\/ML systems. The researchers describe this as a \u201cconfidence-capability gap\u201d, a divergence between self-assessed proficiency and demonstrable, hands-on expertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s engineering talent pool may be significantly overestimating its own AI readiness, according to a new joint study by edtech firm Scaler and CyberMedia Research (CMR) released on Thursday. The study, which surveyed 400 experienced software engineers and tech recruiters, found that while 89% of engineers consider themselves AI-ready, only 19% are deeply engaged in building AI\/ML systems. The researchers describe this as a \u201cconfidence-capability gap\u201d, a divergence between self-assessed proficiency and demonstrable, hands-on expertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}