New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- How software engineers in Silicon Valley spend their days has changed dramatically over the past few years. The output is still the same: reams of code. But instead of sitting and typing, they whisper into microphones. Their instructions are then transcribed using artificial intelligence and fed to AI agents-bots that can interact with software and, in this case, write it.

Other white-collar workers are not yet "in this world", admits Colin Jarvis of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. The future of his employer-and the AI boom at large-hinges on that changing. To justify their colossal outlays on data centres, America's cloud giants, and AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI, need adoption of the technology to continue spread...