Will AI Replace Human Developers? 
The impact of AI on the job of writing code is one of the great imponderables. At the top of the hype cycle, you will find folk saying with a straight face that the future of development is mostly machine written but speak to those doing the job and you will hear a different, if nuanced, story.  
This week we reported that devs feel they are gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants. It proved a popular if divisive article, and readers of CIO.com wanted to know the truth from Smart Answers: will coding assistants replace humans? 
Curating wisdom accumulated from decades of reporting Smart Answers offers some reassurance. Junior jobs may thin out, but humans are still needed to direct projects and review code.  
Find out: Will AI coding assistants replace human developers in the future? 

Data and AI: Match Made in Heaven 
Staying with AI, another big story this week was our report on how IT leaders are weighing up AI’s role in improving data management.  
Leveraging enterprise data assets can be a make-or-break priority for organizations. Machine learning and gen AI are part of the equation, but mastering their applications requires assessing the actual impact AI has on the business. 
As always, our readers wanted the full story from Smart Answers and the entire universe of our reporting. How can AI support data management? Long story short: AI smooths out the bumps and reduces the need for humans to clean up and sift through data to get to insights.  
Find out: What are the key benefits of using AI in data management? 

CISOs: Getting Strategic 
The role of the CISO is changing, we reported this week. With security software and services spending surging more quickly than budgets, CISOs are becoming risk management orchestrators with staff reshaping their focus on oversight, strategic planning, and integration, experts predict. 
This prompted the readers of CSOonline.com to ask about the future of the CISO role. Smart Answers confirms: CISOs are getting out of the trenches and headed up the strategic staircase.  
Find out: Will CISOs focus more on strategic planning and integration in the future?