“generative AI” is not going to be replacing much. I don’t think that’s evidence-based. Why not look at actual movement of labor aristocrat jobs to India or elsewhere? Some software development gets outsourced to India. Which coincides with the process they describe for a ton of paragraphs right before the generative AI section.
It seems like the article is basically a general one about offshoring but with the word “AI” jammed into it. Everything else is fine information.
“AI” being shorthand for “Actual Indians” once again.
The companies that don’t realize you just pretend to be migrating to LLM development while laying off workers to hire cheaper labor in other countries are gonna tank.
It’s so much more costly to run development on a massive super cluster than to just have a room of 10 developers somewhere in Bangaldesh bash out some working code in a day.
The other thing is that we’re seeing unprecedented levels of slop being pushed out to production codebases. Codebases that are gonna become the backbone of companies for decades to come. Someone will have to one day be able to understand the slop and fix it.