South Africa's Skills Gap Solution and Its Hidden Price

AI tooling built into modern IDEs now reads across entire code bases, infers conventions, and drafts implementations, but this comes with a hidden price: security flaws.

The country’s skills gap is not just about the number of people who can prompt an AI model, but also about the engineers who can tell when the model is wrong.

The productivity gains from AI tooling are being absorbed by teams that are already short-staffed, while the security debt is being accumulated by businesses that cannot afford it.