Duly Noted

As a result of AI usage, respondents feel the most in-demand competencies will be critical thinking (43%) and architectural design (34%) over the next three years. Other points of interest were domain expertise at 28% and communication skills at 27%.

Almost like writing code isn’t the hardest part of the job.

_{Quote Citation: leaddev.com, “https://leaddev.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/THE-AI-IMPACT-REPORT-2025-download__LDMO__.pdf", August 2026, The AI Impact Report 2025}