LinkedIn’s AI transition is not replacing engineers, it is raising the bar for them
AI is often discussed in the language of replacement, engineers will write less code, recruiters will screen fewer resumes, agents will perform tasks that once required teams of people, but inside LinkedIn, the more consequential change may be happening somewhere less visible. AI is beginning to alter what the company considers valuable human work.
Nithya Rajagopalan, Head of LTS Engineering at LinkedIn India, describes the transition as the latest stage in an evolution she has witnessed over years of engineering. On premise infrastructure gave way to cloud, and now engineering is moving towards an AI native model.
Yet her account also exposes an uncomfortable contradiction in the current AI narrative. If machines increasingly handle execution, the responsibility for deciding what should be built, whether it is correct and whether it is safe does not disappear. It moves upwards. “Having very strong foundations is very much important,” Rajagopalan says.
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