WiseTech wants to cut 2,000 jobs as part of its AI “transformation”.

WiseTech Global will cut around 2,000 employees over the next two years – nearly a third of its 7,000 employees – as Chief Executive Officer Zubin Appoo bets the logistics software giant’s future on artificial intelligence.

Some teams are facing staff cuts of up to 50 percent, starting with product development and customer service, including the recently acquired US platform e2open.

The shakeup comes amid a sharp selloff among traditional software companies, from Atlassian to Adobe, sparked by fears that AI-powered coding tools will allow upstarts to quickly replicate services that took incumbents years to build.

“The era of manually writing code at the core…