At this point in time, we're following the time corporate got on the outsourcing craze step for step. It had all the hype, hands off, cheaper for the same work, faster to market, every other argument you've all certainly heard. Then the reality hit. The whole discussion around LLM coding agents feels indistinguishable.
The reality in which people like me get to do work for US/UK for 4x the salary relative to equivalent work locally, and some of this work is actually cleaning up after folks elsewhere, who being cheapest labor available still got 4x their local salary for this work, and the total is still 4x cheaper than what the US/UK company would pay locally? :).
(I'm only half-joking; in a previous life, I worked on a project with this exact development history.)
The outsourcing market is alive and kicking, and offers a whole spectrum of quality and price. The more to the east of US you are, the easier it is to see :).
> The whole discussion around LLM coding agents feels indistinguishable.
Nah, the difference here is, in outsourcing-to-LLMs scenario, there are no people who do the work and benefit from favorable salary/costs-of-living ratio.