By Mohd Haider
Publication Date: 2026-02-15 11:01:00
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, made a bold prediction about the future of professional tasks, suggesting that “most, if not all, professional tasks” for lawyers, accountants, project managers, and marketing professionals “will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months.”
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Suleyman pointed to software engineering as evidence that the shift is already underway.
“Many software engineers report that they are now using AI-assisted coding for the vast majority of their code production,” he said, noting this transformation happened “in the last six months.”
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