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        "msgid": "high-paying-profession-thought-to-be-extinct-is-suddenly-in-demand-1791791493",
        "date": "2026-10-12 14:15:00",
        "title": "High-Paying Profession Thought to Be Extinct Is Suddenly in Demand",
        "author": "",
        "source": "CNBC",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Business",
        "summary": "Software developer vacancies in the United States have risen by nearly 15% since 2025, despite earlier predictions that AI would make the profession obsolete. Experts say AI adoption may be increasing demand for developers as companies produce more code, although vacancies remain below pre-pandemic levels and are concentrated in senior roles.",
        "content": "<p>Demand for software development jobs in the United States has risen.\nLast year, however, vacancies in the field fell amid the rapid advance\nof artificial intelligence (AI), and the profession was even predicted\nto become extinct.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC International reported that concerns over declining software\ndeveloper vacancies had emerged as more companies adopted AI-powered\ncoding tools, whose capabilities are becoming more sophisticated by the\nday.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft-owned software development platform GitHub recorded that\naround half of projects were using AI-generated code in 2023. Last\nOctober, the platform confirmed that AI was involved in one in three\ncode-suggestion tasks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that pace continues over the next two years, most of the code\nuploaded to GitHub will be written by [AI] agents. Much of it may never\nbe read in full by a human,\u201d AI experts said, as quoted on Monday (12\nOctober 2026).<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, experts see this trend as a potential driver of\ncontinued growth in the profession rather than its demise. This is\nconsistent with data from Indeed Hiring Lab, which said software\ndeveloper vacancies in the US have risen by nearly 15% since 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Some economists regard the increase as a sign of optimism about AI\nadoption in the labour market. Eric Kutcher, chairman of McKinsey North\nAmerica, said demand for the profession was growing as companies\nproduced more code for a range of projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are actually seeing greater growth in areas where we previously\nexpected the biggest shifts as a result of automation,\u201d Kutcher\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>McKinsey Global previously reported that the decline in the number of\nsoftware developers was not solely caused by AI. Another factor was\ncompanies slowing recruitment after hiring heavily during the\npandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, current demand remains below pre-pandemic levels. Indeed\nHiring Lab data put vacancies for these roles at around 27.5% of their\nprevious level, with senior positions accounting for 71% between May\n2025 and May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The same data also showed that vacancies specifically mentioning AI\nskills accounted for 37% of the total increase in demand for software\ndevelopment jobs.<\/p>",
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