Over the next three years, many organizations will use AI agents to write the majority of their software, moving developers into review roles, Gartner predicts. But challenges and questions remain.

Unlike OpenAI’s previous Codex code completion AI model, the new version is a full cloud-based AI software engineering (SWE) agent built atop a fine-tuned version of OpenAI’s o3 reasoning ...

Autor adds that the picture may be complicated by the “elasticity” of demand for software engineering—the extent to which the market might accommodate additional engineering jobs.