The capability and power of the LLMs is increasing on almost a month-by-month basis as the Big Tech companies leapfrog over each other seeking to dominate this space. Despite their intense rivalry and competition, all agree with Industry thought leaders like Prof Andrew Ng that the future lies with AI products and agents and all are developing “ walled gardens” and inducements including tools and grants for developers to come and develop AI products, services and agents for various purposes using their cloud services.
This is leading to a very significant increase in computer programmers now focussing on becoming AI product and agent developers. In part, this is because AI has replaced the need for basic computer coding (and the need for some programmers ) so many are now pivoting towards AI agent development.
In addition, it is no longer necessary to know any coding at all to be able to develop AI Products, services or agents Many of the LLMs now incorporate ability to use natural langauage to develop agentic functions. Numerous videos are available on YouTube promoting various different “no-code” or “low code ” AI product development platforms and there are now numerous courses where non-programmers can learn how to develop AI-related products and services. In addition, Github co pilot and other Git hub tools allows programmers and non-programmers to develop software with simple ChatGPT type natural language prompts in any language so anyone anywhere in the world can now develop software using their own natural language.
This is leading to an influx of potential AI product developers and AI entrepreneurs entering from other disciplines and non programming backgrounds. It is clear that a new profession of “AI product developer” or “AI entrepreneur” is emerging and that this will be an important and highly valued job over the next decade as the LLMs become more and more powerful and the AI products, agents and AI agentic teams that can be built, similarly become more and more capable of planning and implementing ever more complex tasks.
Other older, established professions ( medicine, civil engineering, law, accountancy etc ) all have specialist institutions, scientific bodies or associations catering to their needs and promoting their profession. These are normally restrictive and based on specified educational background plus experience qualifications e.g. Institution of Civil Engineers, Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), British Medical Association (BMA) etc. Membership and entry is normally restricted to only those persons holding acceptable university degree level educational and experience qualifications in that discipline
Since AI- product and services developers may come from many different disciplines and different educational backgrounds, there is no single organisation that can cater adequately for their wider backgrounds and needs. It is therefore now necessary to create some sort of “umbrella” organisation to support and service the needs of such a diverse variety of AI developers and entrepreneurs and to promote the interests of this new profession that will play such an important role over the next Decade.
