I counted the tools in Indonesian tech job ads before and after ChatGPT
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,
Posted on Nov 2 • Originally published at lokerdollar.com
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.
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. Same word list on both sides, same kinds of roles.
Most of these moves are small, and many are flat on the other boards and countries we read. Treat them as leads.
The bigger story in Indonesia is not code. Since 2023, 1 in 20 Indonesian job ads names TikTok, against 1 in 316 that names an AI tool. CapCut went from 1 in 17,058 ads to 1 in 73.
The full write-up, with a tool where you pick a job and see what its ads ask for now: https://lokerdollar.com/en/research/pandoras-box-ep1-ai-job-ads-2026?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pandoras-box&utm_content=kelvin