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Will AI Agents Leave Us Without Jobs: IT-Enterprise Founder Oleg Shcherbatenko Spoke at DOU Day 2026
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the employment landscape — and at the same time becoming the primary tool for overcoming the talent crisis and scaling business operations without proportional headcount growth. This was the central argument of IT-Enterprise founder and CEO Oleg Shcherbatenko during his keynote at DOU Day 2026, Ukraine’s most prominent annual IT community event.
In his presentation “Will AI Assistants Leave Us Without Jobs?”, he presented verified data: over two years, IT-Enterprise digital solutions enabled client companies to eliminate 7,830 positions by automating processes previously performed manually. This aligns with the global trend: Amazon, Intel, and Dell collectively reduced their workforce by over 70,000 specialists, rebalancing toward employees with AI competencies.
Oleg Shcherbatenko urged the audience to evaluate these shifts in a strategic context: every industrial revolution phased out old professions and created new ones. For Ukraine, facing a deep talent shortage, digitalization and AI represent the primary mechanism for maintaining competitiveness and scaling operations.
The effectiveness of AI assistants can be illustrated by large-scale Ukrainian cases where digitalization delivers immediate results. At Ukrposhta, an IT-Enterprise AI assistant independently processes supplier documents, adds them to the ERP system, and monitors contract terms. The system completes in one minute what previously took a person 20 minutes. Similar results come from automating technical archives at defense sector manufacturers, where our AI solutions replace up to 90% of manual labor in processing documents of varying complexity. On the SmartTender procurement platform, our AI assistant analyzes 100-page tender requirements, calculates logistics and competitor pricing in just 2 minutes instead of 3–5 hours. Three out of four of Ukraine’s largest fuel suppliers already use this tool to win bids,
said IT-Enterprise founder and CEO Oleg Shcherbatenko.
Shcherbatenko also presented the results of IT-Enterprise’s AI assistant factory: each year the team releases more than 20 specialized agents that process terabytes of client ERP data and generate management decisions based on real-time information. Among them is Anna Maly, which analyzes industrial sensor readings continuously to predict equipment failures — a class of tasks that humans are physically unable to perform with the required speed and accuracy in an uninterrupted mode.
Today, AI is also helping humanity address the global demographic imbalance by increasing labor productivity. The key recommendation for the community is to stop fearing artificial intelligence and instead join those who are building AI assistants that take over routine, repetitive, and uninspiring work and complete it in minutes. What remains for people is meaningful work — the kind that truly inspires,
emphasized IT-Enterprise founder and CEO Oleg Shcherbatenko.
IT-Enterprise is a Ukrainian product company with over 35 years of expertise in digital transformation for leaders across the real economy. Clients include Interpipe, Ferrexpo, Nibulon, Ukrposhta, Ukrnafta, and Ukrzaliznytsia. Since the first days of the full-scale invasion, the company has been delivering critically important national projects: humanitarian aid tracking, procurement process recovery, and business relocation support. Oleg Shcherbatenko is a consistent advocate for Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 technologies and methodologies.
