"Simple developers will disappear": experts from Djinni, DOU and robota.ua told who will be needed in the labor market of the future

Participants in the panel discussion «Who the market needs: how demand in IT is changing,» including DOU CEO Vlada Zatsarynna, DOU & Djinni founder Maksym Ishchenko, and robota.ua CEO Valeriy Reshetnyak, said that the first to fall under the knife of automation will be specialists whose work involves routine information processing .

In particular, the profession of data entry operator is actually disappearing right now, Reshetnyak emphasized. A similar fate, he says, awaits basic support specialists, who are being very confidently replaced by chatbots.

The so-called white-collar workers in junior positions are also at risk: lawyers and accountants. If before a person manually sorted through stacks of documents, now Claude or Gemini do it in seconds. However, the speakers emphasize that the market has not yet fully realized the scale of the changes. According to their forecasts, it will take at least a few more years for companies to fully test new AI models and finally understand who exactly can be fired or stopped hiring altogether.

Changes will not bypass IT professionals themselves. Maksym Ishchenko, Founder of DOU & Djinni, shared his own experience. According to the entrepreneur, currently there are only three developers working in the product team, but thanks to AI, each of them does much more than before. Ishchenko emphasized that the format of human skills is rapidly expanding today, forcing developers to become more versatile.

If a specialist doesn’t know something — how to write an SQL query, build a marketing funnel, or extract analytics from a database — he simply does it with the help of artificial intelligence, successfully taking on the roles of a marketer, manager, and even CEO within the framework of his task. The era when 80-90% of the IT market was made up of developers who simply wrote code according to ready-made specifications is passing. In a normal product company, the share of developers should be 10-20%, and the rest is sales, marketing, and support.

Vlada Zatsarynna, CEO of DOU, supplemented this opinion with a real case, confirming that teams are objectively becoming smaller. As an example, she cited the story of the creation of the DOU mobile application: what a few years ago would have required hiring an entire team of outsourcers, now could be implemented by virtually one person in just two months of work, and not even working full-time.

As routine tasks disappear, a new superpowerful demand is emerging in the market. The panelists predict a real boom in specialists in business transformation using AI agents (Agentic AI Transformation).

Valeriy Reshetnyak, CEO of robota.ua, is convinced that the greatest value for business owners, from IT to large retail or agricultural holdings, will lie precisely in those people who can successfully rebuild outdated processes using neural networks. Just as companies massively went through the stage of basic digitalization ten years ago, now the stage of implementing intelligent autonomous systems will come.

Implementing AI and at the same time laying off 10% of the staff is not a big deal. But making people more productive so that a company can generate more value for customers and increase profits with fewer employees is a challenge. It is precisely such specialists who will become the most sought-after personnel on the labor market in the coming years.

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