The growing presence of artificial intelligence is significantly disrupting the business model of training young people in developing countries to secure remote software-related jobs in developed nations.
The Chief Executive Officer of Famiscro Group, Ndubuisi Ekekwe, stated this on his official Facebook page on Monday.
According to Ekekwe, AI increasingly automates traditional software development, marking the beginning of the end of the coding boom that has swept developing countries like Nigeria.
The technology inventor revealed that the decrease in advertisements for coding schools and coding camps was a clear indication of the impact of AI on the industry.
He explained that coding was becoming superfluous, as many coders in leading tech companies were “coding themselves out of jobs”.
According to the Famiscro Group CEO, this is because AI is now a team member, reducing the need for a large number of coders.
Ekekwe emphasised that building algorithms, not coding, was where sustainable opportunities would emerge as the AI revolution intensifies.
He stressed the importance of mathematics, calling it the “beautiful science of numbers” and the “pillar upon which natural philosophy understanding is built”.
According to experts, AI-powered coding tools, including ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, CodiumAI Codiumate, and Amazon CodeWhisperer, are redefining the coding paradigm.
By automating code generation, these tools are accelerating development timelines, and their capabilities are continually advancing to generate high-quality, compilable, and executable code.
The Chief Executive Officer of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, said that kids no longer need to learn to code and that AI will do that.
“Over the last 10-15 years, almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you that it is vital that your children learn computer science; everybody should learn how to programme,” he told the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier this year. “In fact, it is almost exactly the opposite.”
A cybersecurity consultant, Francis Nwebonyi, explained on Linkedin that there was a need to train young people in developing countries to invent and work in the field of technology.
He warned that relying solely on artificial intelligence without a deep understanding of its underlying principles, including coding, is a recipe for disaster.
Nwebonyi advised young people to go beyond just learning to code and to focus on understanding data structures, which is essential for achieving meaningful results in tech and AI jobs.
“There will always be the need to optimise things. My advice is, don’t just learn coding; be grounded in data structures too. Even without AI, someone who just knows how to code may command minimal results,” he wrote.