Software Developers, task by task.

The work this job is made of, grouped and scored on how much of its output software can produce today, then linked to what addresses it. What is left over is the job. The full activity list is underneath.

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SOC code
15-1252.00
Activities scored
6
In O*NET
18 activities
Activities an agent can take on
5
Grounded in
O*NET 30.3
The tasks · Software DevelopersSOC 15-1252.00
88% · agentMostly automatable
85% · agentMostly automatable
82% · agentMostly automatable
80% · agentMostly automatable
64% · agentPartly automatable
25% · you keepBarely automatable
The team5 agents · 5 need no setup
Software Design Agent
C# · Apache Maven · Eclipse IDE
● No integration needed
Code Optimization Agent
C++ · Apache Spark · Docker
● No integration needed
Testing Framework Agent
Apache Airflow · Atlassian JIRA · Docker
● No integration needed
Requirements Analysis Agent
Docs · Sheets · Atlassian Confluence
● No integration needed
Technical Documentation Agent
Docs · Atlassian Confluence · Adobe Acrobat
● No integration needed
You keep this
Final approval of software architecture and design decisionsPersonnel hiring, performance reviews, and team leadership accountabilityClient relationship ownership and high-stakes technical negotiationsSystem deployment authorization and production release decisions

Automatability scores estimate how much of a task an agent can reliably do today, grounded in O*NET task data. They are not predictions of job loss.

Start with these three

The most automatable work in this job, and the one tool we would use for each. Every task has a page of its own with the reasoning and every occupation that does it.

Software design and development88% · drafting and content production · mostly automatable
Code modification and performance improvement85% · drafting and content production · mostly automatable
Testing procedures and validation development82% · drafting and content production · mostly automatable
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The full activity list

All 18 detailed work activities O*NET records for Software Developers, grouped by how much of each one software can take on. Every row has its own page.