The introverts’ edge: How AI is leveling the developer floor

A nervous junior developer comes to work feeling neglected and spends time playing ping-pong rather than asking a senior developer for help for fear of looking bad, which only makes them fall further behind. The emergence of AI coding assistants has made that scenario less frequent — but the full picture is more complicated than that. Neel Sundaresan, GM of Automation and AI at IBM Software, was part of the team that built the original Microsoft GitHub Copilot before joining IBM and led the team that delivered IBM’s Bob coding assistant.