$15 billion tech CEO says she doesn’t know what jobs will look like in 2 years—but she’s still pushing her son into computer science

Although AI companies are soaring to multibillion-dollar valuations, job prospects in the tech industry are growing murkier. Computer programming employment in the U.S. is at its lowest level since 1980 as companies increasingly automate tasks. Some firms like Anthropic are already using AI for 100% of coding.

The speed of change has left even top tech leaders struggling to predict what comes next. Yamini Rangan, the CEO of a $15 billion software company, HubSpot, admits she doesn’t know what jobs will look like in an AI-enabled future—even in as little as two years from now.

“As things evolve every decade, new jobs will emerge,” Rangan said recently on the Silicon Valley Girl podcast. “You can’t even plan for a job that will be there 10 years from now, or 20 years from now, or even two years from now.”

For Rangan, that career uncertainty isn’t new. Before becoming CEO, she served as the chief customer officer of HubSpot...