Bengaluru’s IT giants must wake up to the AI storm or risk obsolescence

Code maintenance, bug fixes, integration, testing, documentation — this was what made the global giants. But these functions are being swallowed by AI systems

I first visited Bengaluru in the 1990s, when its airport was a modest structure with a single civilian runway and the roads were seemingly empty. The city felt like a frontier outpost. Its IT leaders were hungry and ambitious, willing to jump on any opportunity presented to them. They believed they could change the world—and they did.

The bigger danger is that Indian IT firms will find their market caps cut in half as clients abandon outdated models. (REUTERS)

Fast forward three decades. The airport is now a gleaming global hub, the traffic is legendary, and Bengaluru has become synonymous with IT.