It’s safe to say that AI was the story of 2025: It topped CIOs’ tech agendas; vendors rolled out a constant stream of new AI products and features; and IT professionals and other knowledge workers got down to the business of integrating it into their workflows.
AI’s current and future impact on IT jobs and how work gets done featured in six of our top 10 articles. In particular, the use of AI in software development captured reader interest, as coding assistants became more widely used and vibe coding became part of the vernacular.
But for every story about how AI is revolutionizing some aspect of IT is another that points to ongoing challenges — with finding workers with the requisite skill, with AI’s propensity to produce “false outputs,” and, notably, with getting real business value from AI projects.
Here, in reverse order, are our top 10 AI stories of 2025.
10. The emergence of AI marks a point of inflection in the evolution of the top tech exec position, with greater strategic responsibilities and career growth on the horizon for those who embrace the challenge that change brings.
9. Executives and analysts frequently note that, going forward, successful IT careers will blend human skills with AI. Early reports suggest that AI is already reshaping the IT job landscape — and showing signs of taking over junior IT positions. Add in IT leaders’ belief that IT workforces may be contracting in the years ahead, and there is a lot of uncertainty these days regarding the long-term outlook on IT careers.
8. To keep ahead of the curve, CIOs must continuously evaluate their business and technology strategies, adjusting them as necessary to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and economic practices. Topping the list of priorities in 2025: shifting AI experimentation to real-world value.
7. We’re living in a strange time for software development. On the one hand, AI-driven coding assistants have shaken up a hitherto calcified IDE market. Ironically, that very innovation in genAI may be stifling innovation in the software those coding assistants increasingly recommend.
6. One of the challenges of IT operations at a global consulting firm like Accenture is it runs a huge and diverse portfolio of technologies to drive its digital core. Maintaining and operating that core requires continuously developing deep skillsets that are becoming rarer as every industry competes within a limited talent pool. Accenture’s answer is the Accenture Advanced Technology Agent (AATA), an agentic AI-powered integration platform that sits between the company’s human workforce and its technology platforms, and something that’s earned the company a 2025 CIO 100 Award in IT Excellence.
5. Forrester projected that global enterprise technology spending would grow by 5.6% in 2025, reaching $4.9 trillion, as enterprises continued to prioritize investments in cybersecurity, cloud computing, generative AI, and digital transformation.
4. Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly.
3. AI tops the list as the skill that can earn you the highest pay bump, earning tech professionals nearly an 18% premium over other tech skills.
2. In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.
1. As genAI takes hold in the enterprise, improvisation is giving way to engineering. Can organizations build the guardrails needed to turn clever prompts into dependable systems?
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