Megaplan Director Compared the Path in IT and Manufacturing by 2027
Sergey Kozlov from Megaplan published on Habr on October 30, 2026, a comparison of the career of a junior in IT and an assistant foreman in manufacturing — taking into account the impact of AI.
On October 30, 2026, Habr published an article by Sergey Kozlov, director of the company that develops the CRM system Megaplan and the knowledge base Collabis. Both products have AI assistants. The author compares two paths for a person choosing a first profession: programming with finding a job as a junior and furniture assembly from the position of an assistant foreman. The material received 4.6K views, reading time — 8 minutes.
The difference from a typical debate about AI is that Kozlov does not limit himself to the question “will programmers be replaced.” He moves the comparison to the workshop. In his wording, manufacturing also has technical specifications, deadlines, and responsibility. But automating such work requires not only an algorithm: expensive equipment and tools are needed, as well as the ability to explain and negotiate. In IT, the equipment barrier to entry is lower, but competition for the first position is higher.
In practice, this means that the choice of profession in the article comes down not to “AI will replace everyone,” but to the speed of reaching a first income and the durability of the skill. Kozlov writes that in both cases one will have to gain hands-on experience, correct mistakes, and prove that you can be trusted with a non-standard task. On the financial side, he notes: work in IT is indeed associated with success when compared with the average salary in the country. There are no specific figures on salaries and payback periods in the available fragment — there is no data.
What remained unknown: the author’s full calculations and conclusions for each comparison criterion. Also, the text does not answer how exactly the AI assistants in Megaplan and Collabis products are connected to career forecasts for 2027.