Save Time And Cost By Using AI-Generated Code
InformationWeek, Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
AI can be used in an infinite number of ways, but its most powerful business application may be code creation.
AI-generated code may sound like a career-killer, yet a growing number of IT leaders are now turning to AI to generate various types of routine code, freeing human coders to focus on more complex and rewarding tasks.
AI can significantly accelerate software development, says Prasad Sankaran, president, software and platform engineering, at IT consulting firm Cognizant. "Based on natural-language prompts, AI can write code and test scripts across a range of programming languages, frameworks, libraries, and more," he states in an online interview. Sankaran notes that AI can also generate synthetic test data, limiting the need to use sensitive live data sets. "At Cognizant, 20% to 30% of our code is now written by machines -- that's productivity we can pass along to our clients."