Will ChatGPT take away IT coding jobs? Narayana Murthy replies

Fear not! Dear coders, you aren't going to lose your jobs to ChatGPT. Infosys founder Narayan Murthy responded to concerns about coders losing their jobs to generative AI technologies like ChatGPT and allayed IT workers' fears by claiming that it "will never happen". The reasoning behind his confident take was quite simply the ability of our brains to adapt to any situation, making our skills irreplaceable.

Speaking to the press on the sidelines of the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum, Narayan Murthy said, “In 1977-78 there was a thing called program generators. Everybody said the youngsters will lose all jobs, it didn't happen….. the human mind is the most flexible instrument. It can adapt very well. And all that happened was people start solving bigger and bigger problems, which these program generators could not handle.”

Murthy said that ChatGPT is good and one should welcome it. “Use ChatGPT as the base and then show our creativity, show our smartness, and show our innovation,” he said.


He also took the opportunity to say that he has personally tried it too, after his son, Rohan Murty, introduced him to it a few months ago.

“It's very good. What it's going to do is it provides you a certain knowledge, and then you can show your creativity, your smartness, your innovation,” he said.