New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- Will artificial intelligence (AI) impact jobs and the powerhouse that is the Indian IT services industry? The debate, which existed for a while, picked up steam with the advent of generative AI tool ChatGPT in November 2022.

And now, the misgivings have escalated, with the world's largest venture capital (VC) firm jumping into the debate last week. In a blog post on 13 February, California-headquartered Andreessen Horowitz argued that the mundane and repetitive work of the information technology (IT) services industry could be automated by using AI tools, and that AI startups will subsume work done by large IT services companies.

The views of Andreessen Horowitz or A16z, which has $44 billion in assets under manage...