Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated, Rajendran Dandapani tells audience at DevSparks Chennai

For a developer, there is something unsettling about watching an AI agent write code. It might not be perfect, but it is often good enough to raise an uncomfortable question: if machines can increasingly do the work, what exactly is the developer supposed to do? That was the question Rajendran Dandapani, Director at Zoho Corporation, posed to the audience at DevSparks Chennai in his opening session, titled ‘The Developer is Dead.