I run LokerDollar, a job site for Indonesia. For a research series I read 118,545 archived job ads from Southeast Asia, 2019 to 2026, and compared what they asked for before ChatGPT (to October 2022) and after (from January 2023).

This post is the tech slice: ads whose title names a software, data, IT, QA or DevOps job on the two biggest Indonesian office job boards. That is 1,800 ads before and 2,187 after.

The AI part first

Since 2023, 1 in 13 Hacker News "Who is hiring?" tech posts names an AI tool such as ChatGPT or Copilot. In Indonesian tech job ads it is 1 in 76.…