Infosys will use AI coder Devin in the company, which has created fear of job loss for freshers and junior developers.
Infosys’ decision to deploy AI coder Devin across its operations has raised fears that automation could reduce opportunities for new and junior developers in India’s IT services sector.
Infosys’ latest move into agentic AI has sparked an intense debate in India’s tech circles, especially among early-career engineers. The IT major has announced a comprehensive partnership with US-based AI startup Cognition to deploy Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, in its internal teams as well as client projects. While the company is touting the move as a leap in productivity, reactions online suggest that many see it as a warning sign for new hires and junior developer roles.
The Bengaluru-headquartered company says the partnership aims to enhance delivery capabilities at a time when enterprises are demanding faster results with smaller budgets. Devin, which Cognition describes as an AI software engineer, is designed to handle tasks like independently writing code, fixing bugs, migrating legacy systems, and completing end-to-end engineering workflows with limited human intervention.
Infosys has already started onboarding Devin into its financial services practice. This includes use cases in banking, payments, capital markets, insurance and wealth management. The company is not limiting deployment to internal teams only. Devin is also being deployed directly into customer organizations, where it will work alongside human engineers. Infosys plans to take it further into retail, energy, healthcare and other sectors.
According to Infosys, the past six months of experimentation with Davin has yielded “material productivity gains.” Projects that were traditionally considered time-consuming and manpower-heavy, including complex COBOL migrations and JCP servlet modernizations, are now being completed much faster. The company claims that these projects have transformed from long-running engagements to streamlined execution in record time.
Infosys says it will use Devin in three broad ways. The first is internal productivity, where AI engineers will help speed up development work within Infosys’ own teams. The second is service delivery, where human engineers and AI agents will work together as hybrid delivery pods to accelerate customer projects. The third model is as a managed service provider, where Infosys will deploy and manage Davin directly inside the customer environment, taking responsibility for governance, customization and ongoing operations.
To make this work happen at the enterprise level, Infosys and Cognition are also building engineering frameworks and enablement programs tailored for highly regulated industries. It aims to offer standardized architecture, best practices, and automation layers that reduce complexity while improving operational flexibility for larger organizations.
In its public announcement, Cognition said it was “excited to continue working closely with Infosys to accelerate software engineering across the company and its enterprise customers.” However, the tone online has been much less celebratory.
Soon after Cognition shared the news on X, the comments section was filled with sharp reactions from users. One user wrote, “Infosys would rather pay for Cognition than increase the base salary of junior employees in its organization. SWE is a dead zone to join officially, especially for people joining consultancies like TCS and Infosys.”
Another comment noted how disruptive this could be to traditional service models. “For a service-based company built on billing hours, this is truly disruptive innovation. When your AI is over in minutes, typically requiring three status decks, four escalations, and a steering committee, you know the future has arrived,” the user said.
Some responses were more sarcastic and tepid. One user commented, “The funniest thing is that Infosys is actually paying itself out of existence. Someone in Bengaluru right now is mass training engineers who will graduate into a job market where AI does its thing.” Another said, “Freshman salary and Devin salary are almost the same anyway.”
Not all comments were directly about jobs. One user expressed a different concern, saying, “Does your support exist? I opened a ticket a few days ago and haven’t received a response. I have a legacy billing and my subscription is about to cancel without the ability to renew. The dashboard just says ‘Internal Server Error’.”
Voices were also being raised against terror. One user argued that AI adoption could actually strengthen large IT companies. “The game of AI agents is just getting started. AI adoption is accelerating among MSPs and large service provider companies like Infosys, TCS and Cognizant. They are not going anywhere soon,” the commentary said.
Others chose humor to make their point. “Good for them. AI won’t complain about working 70 hours per week, but will definitely get paid overtime,” one person joked, while another put it bluntly: “Well, who would have thought! Infosys is selling coding agents.”
At present, Infosys is presenting Devin as an accelerator rather than a replacement. But the scale of the rollout and the speed at which AI agents are entering core engineering workflows have clearly unnerved many people. As large IT services companies are taking a deeper interest in autonomous software engineering, the biggest unanswered question remains how this shift will make or break entry-level tech jobs in India.
