The rapid introduction of artificial intelligence into our lives brings with it new questions. “Do artificial intelligence applications leave software engineers unemployed?” The question opens the door to one of the most popular debates of the last period. Factory Founder Dr. According to Abdullah Önden, these concerns are unfounded. Because the use of artificial intelligence applications is still far from the imagined level. According to a study, 66 percent of companies use AI applications minimally or not at all.
Artificial intelligence applications, which have emerged recently and have made a surprising impact on our lives, can do many things from design to content production, from video editing to coding. This situation causes many people to worry about their profession. The software industry is one of the industries where this debate takes place. While many companies are looking for ways to meet their expectations and needs in the field of software with artificial intelligence applications, software professionals are afraid of being unemployed.
“Every period of change is painful, the important thing is to adapt to change”
Evaluating the extent to which artificial intelligence applications can respond to the software needs of institutions, Fabrikod Founder Yalova University Faculty Member Dr. Abdullah Önden said, “The artificial intelligence debates we live today are actually the result of a very natural process. Every period of change in the history of the world has caused various pains. While those who kept up with the change continued on their way stronger, those who resisted change unfortunately had to be erased from the stage of history. Today, I would like to give an example through Fabrikod, a product studio operating in the field of technology development that I am the manager of. The technologies we use, the work we do, in short, everything is changing at an incredible speed. We are faced with innovation and change every day. Of course, we can continue with the old software technologies. But this first stabilizes us and then regresses. For this reason, we constantly improve ourselves and work to ensure that our customers reach products and services that can compete with the world. Otherwise, first we and then our customers will lose their competitiveness. At the point we have reached today, what we define as innovation is artificial intelligence applications. We also try to benefit from the convenience of these applications in all the services we provide.”
“Artificial intelligence is an assistant that speeds things up and supports us”
Emphasizing that artificial intelligence applications are not enemies but friends for software professionals, Dr. Abdullah Önden said, “We serve our customers in an area where competition and change is high, such as web development, mobile application development, interface and customer experience design development, and e-commerce. For this reason, artificial intelligence is not an enemy to be feared for us, but an assistant that accelerates our work. To give the simplest example, we can prepare our content drafts in a short time and receive suggestions for ideas. We can also find unexpected suggestions on design. It's a matter of how you use technology. Many companies still do not have clear information on how to use artificial intelligence applications. For example, the MIT Sloan School of Management recently published a study of 741 executives. 66 percent of the companies participating in the research use artificial intelligence applications minimally or not at all. This is actually a big miss. Because 60 percent of the people who participated in the research and stated that they use artificial intelligence applications see these applications as a colleague. This is an important piece of data emphasizing that artificial intelligence applications are our assistants.”
“Artificial intelligence applications are not yet ready to replace humans”
Stating that artificial intelligence applications are not ready enough to replace humans in the current situation, Fabrikod Founder Dr. Abdullah Önden, "World-renowned futurist in the technology industry, Bernard Marr, in his article published last week, emphasized that artificial intelligence is a very functional technology, but that institutions make many mistakes in its use. These errors can be summarized as lack of clear goals, insufficient expertise, insufficient data, insufficient testing, lack of planning. To put it more clearly, issues such as the lack of experts to guide artificial intelligence, the inability to determine the clear target to be reached, and the inability to provide accurate and sufficient data to artificial intelligence reduce success. For this reason, at least for now, it is not possible to say that artificial intelligence applications will dismiss the software developers. This, of course, applies to software professionals who are constantly improving themselves. People and institutions that produce simple and identical works will face the danger of being deleted from the sector in the near future.