New Delhi, March 3 -- Last week, I wrote that computer code spewed out by Generative AI tools might remake the Indian software space. The conclusion of that piece was that we can expect a polarization of software engineering roles.

At one end, a few elite engineers with exceptional architectural and business-function skills will command fat pay-cheques to troubleshoot code generated by artificial intelligence (AI). On the other, leaner teams of low-level engineers who generate code using AI assistants will replace the vast teams once required to execute large-scale software projects.

Insofar as the technology startup space represents the leading edge of what eventually transpires in the software industry, this phenomenon is already play...