Newly-minted Pakistani billionaire’s company one of top reasons for upcoming mass unemployment of Pakistani/Indian programmers

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When Sualeh Asif left Pakistan for a scholarship at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his peers and elders thought that the Karachi kid has done well for himself and has made it big. Little did they know that this wasn’t even the beginning of the story for Pakistan’s newest billionaire.

At MIT, Asif founded the AI-enabled programming automation company called CursorAI, which, along with other giants like Claude, Microsoft Copilot  and OpenAI, has started rendering the world of professional computer programming completely different from the time before them. It will also render vast numbers of Pakistani and Indian programmers without a job within the span of only a couple of years.

“Look, the bulk of these programmers work on freelancing sites like Fiverr, UpWork and the like,” said Sarah Albert, a knowledge industry economist based out of Washington D.C. “These are the programming versions of odd jobs. You know, your regular mom & pop store looking for some cheap coder to make a simple-to-use database for them, or a small app looking for bug fixes. These are going to be a piece of cake for companies like CursorAI.”

“They have been easy to do for a couple of years now; it’s only that the end users are just getting comfortable with them,” she continued. “As they say: the programming language of the future is going to be English.”

However, the woes of programmers aren’t limited only to the one-off freelance variety. “Increasingly, the permanent jobs that require full-time coders are also being done away with,” said Albert. “Soon enough, only senior engineers will be required to oversee the work of robot coders. Expect a lot of those H1B visas to lapse. Sad, but this is just the way the cookie crumbles.”

With SpaceX’s almost certain $60 billion acquisition of CursorAI, Sualeh Asif’s net personal worth is set to swell to more than $1.3 billion. When asked to comment about Asif’s stratospheric personal wealth, his Nixor College, Karachi classfellow replied: “^$%^ him. I lost my software development job at KaraTech last August. Shoulda slapped him a couple of times more on that basketball court while I still had the chance.”