{
  "id": 9070928,
  "title": "Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated, Rajendran Dandapani tells audience at DevSparks Chennai",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/reports-of-our-death-are-greatly-exaggerated-rajendran-dandapani",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-22T03:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "YourStory",
    "slug": "yourstory",
    "url": "https://yourstory.com/2026/09/reports-of-our-death-greatly-exaggerated-rajendran-dandapani-developers-devsparks-chennai"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Rajendran Dandapani, Director at Zoho Corporation, delivered an opening session titled 'The Developer is Dead. Long Live the Developer' at the DevSparks Chennai event. Despite the ominous title, Dandapani's argument was not about the disappearance of developers, but rather the changing nature of their work. He emphasized that while AI agents can write code that is often good enough, it does not mean developers are becoming obsolete. Instead, Dandapani highlighted the evolving role of developers in this AI-driven era.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}