Understanding IT sector

I disagree.

AI is surely going to replace programmers and quite a few of them. Most programmers in the Indian IT industry write implementation codes. The feature requirements are defined by Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and System Architects. These members take judgment calls based on experience. Everyone at the engineering level implements by writing classes, and functions and calling them.

So they would clearly be replaced by AI writing code.

However, there would be other roles that would be created. People with expertise in understanding how to correctly interact with the APIs. And people for troubleshooting the code as the algorithm is probabilistic and not deterministic.

But the net effect would be a reduction in the work-force. It has been historically noted that innovation has always resulted in capital replacing human labor. I would claim that the purpose of innovation is to replace human labor.

So this time would also be the same. There is going to be a net reduction of work-force.