#2/10 Beyond the code.
Dialogue #2: Beyond the Code.
Language: 🇷🇴 🇬🇧
Objective
The IT sector seems to stand at a critical inflection point. The same industry that delivered the internet, artificial intelligence, and the algorithms shaping our daily attention now faces profound transformation from within, due to the adoption of generative AI tools.
This discussion examines how these shifts will reshape work, particularly in regional tech hubs like Romania's IT industry.
Context
Adaptation or Obsolescence?
AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT now handle routine coding tasks in minutes. Major firms have trained thousands in AI capabilities—EY upskilled thousands of employees, while McKinsey's AI platform automates tens of thousands of monthly consultant requests. Yet programming still requires human input. Jobs aren't disappearing—they're evolving. Repetitive junior roles face displacement, but demand surges for engineers who architect systems, make ethical decisions, and guide AI rather than compete with it.
Regional Implications: Romania's Crossroads
Romania's IT sector faces multiple pressure points: rising US visa fees push work to India, IT corporations tighten their belts, while AI erodes demand for routine coding. The traditional cost-arbitrage model is under siege.
However, structural AI limitations mean change unfolds over years, creating a strategic window.
Inaction means job migration and automation. Investment in upskilling and advanced capabilities can transform the region from code factory to innovation center. The choice: lead the change or be swept aside by it.
Reading recommendations Dialogues #2
America's new visa requirements affecting the tech sector, coding and software development changes and developments that AI brings and challenges of the consulting branch that is highly exposed on tech.
We need your help!
We are conducting a short survey to inform the dialogue. If you are in IT, please fill it in. It will help all participants have a common baseline for the conversation:
https://forms.office.com/e/VVRAkuRB7v
ABQ.Dialogues #2/10 Speakers
Andrei Oros, Product Management Director, UiPath
Raul Geana, GM, Haufe Group Romania
Daniel Reisenauer, GM, Visma Romania
Voicu Stoiciu, Consultant, exPWC, exNagarro
Dan Damian, Head of AI at Ralph
Sebastian Males, engineer at ElevenLabs
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