Engineering is becoming one of the most resilient professions in the age of artificial intelligence
In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies has raised serious concerns among many professionals, especially programmers. This was reported by Zamin.uz.
Many had predicted that AI would learn to write code and replace engineers. However, recent statistical data show that these predictions have not materialized in practice—on the contrary, the engineering profession has proven to be one of the most resilient across all sectors.
This is reported by Techcrunch.com. Findings from a large-scale study conducted by the venture firm SignalFire indicate that in 2025, hiring rates in the engineering field remained significantly more stable compared to other industries.
Researchers analyzed the career paths of millions of employees across over a million companies and arrived at an unexpected conclusion: AI is not displacing engineers—it is increasing demand for them.
Similar trends are observed even when analyzing the situation at major tech companies. Although overall hiring volumes at large tech giants have decreased by twenty-five percent compared to 2019, hiring for engineering positions has dropped by only eleven percent.
According to SignalFire’s data, in the ten largest technology companies in the world—including giants such as Alphabet, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tesla—engineers made up fifty-five percent of all employees hired in 2025. For comparison, in 2019, this figure stood at an average of forty-six percent.
This indicates that, even during periods of economic difficulty and workforce reductions, companies are placing greater emphasis on retaining and attracting technical specialists. The situation is even more positive in startups.
Newly established companies hired seven percent more engineers in 2025 than they did in 2019. Why did the predictions fail to come true?
The consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas had identified artificial intelligence as one of the main causes of layoffs in May. Theoretically, AI tools were expected to speed up the coding process, allowing a single engineer to perform the work previously done by several people.
In practice, however, these technologies have not replaced human labor but have instead become additional tools for solving more complex tasks. As Asher Bantock, head of SignalFire’s research division, emphasizes, if AI were truly capable of replacing engineers, we would have seen sharp declines in engineering staff during the current wave of layoffs.
But the data show the opposite: the number of engineers is growing faster than in any other functional area.
Even Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic—a leading company in the AI field—warned last year that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. Meanwhile, Peter McCrory, head of Anthropic’s economics division, stresses that current labor market results are still temporary. Researchers note that while AI tools are accelerating engineers’ work, they are still far from fully replacing them.
