To Be or Not To Be—After AI Revolution

During the last decades, IT solutions were growing continuously in almost all parts of life, so the labor market needed more and more programmers and other IT professionals it seemed to be a perfect career. At the end of 2022 freely available, artificial intelligence (AI) solutions were published, which among others are able to handle programming tasks, give suggestions, create codes, and debug programs. This new possibility raised two important questions. One about informatics education. How can we use up this AI tool in education, and how can we decide what they really know, or they simply use ChatGPT during tests? The other question is more serious, if AI can solve implementation tasks, does it mean the end of IT careers in the near future for a lot of young people? We asked the opinion of our students, who will be programmers studying either in Hungarian or in English training. One eye weeps the other laughs. Some of them already used it in non-ethical way during their studies but the higher their skills the less they fear about not to have a real IT career. This is in line with our view that the more in-depth knowledge one has, the less one should fear the effects of the AI revolution.