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During the outsourcing and offshoring craze a decade or two ago everyone hired cheap developers in India and eventually companies realized that that doesn’t work.
Now they’re trying the same with outsourcing to LLMs.
The bottleneck in software development isn’t coding.
It’s management and design.

Airbnb Hosts Don't Want to Talk to Guests Anymore, Are Outsourcing Messages to AI https://www.404media.co/airbnb-hosts-dont-want-to-talk-to-guests-anymore-are-outsourcing-messages-to-ai/

Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Boeiend artikel,
https://www.computable.nl/2026/03/09/dit-uitbestedingsproject-voor-omzetbelasting-moet-koste-wat-kost-stoppen/

‘Dit uitbestedingsproject voor omzetbelasting moet koste wat kost stoppen’ - Computable.nl
Digitale autonomie en de Belastingdienst: op 10 en 19 maart bespreekt de Tweede Kamer de outsourcing van de software voor omzetbelasting. Marcel van Kooten startte de inmiddels landelijk gevoerde discussie in Computable. We kijken met hem vooruit.

Telus Digital confirms a security incident after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen ~1PB of data from the Canadian outsourcing giant in a multimonth breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Noticed now that the #ECB published a "Guide on outsourcing cloud services to cloud service providers".
https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/ecb/pub/pd…

The Dutch tax authority, after advice by McKinsey, is in the process of outsourcing the collection of VAT (€1.5 billion per week) - a core activity - to a US company called Fast Enterprises, handing the Trump regime another unique tool to apply pressure.
https://www.

Eerenberg drukt Amerikaanse aanbesteding btw-systeem door, ondanks waarschuwingen experts
Het kabinet wil de uitbesteding van de software achter de btw-inning aan een Amerikaans bedrijf doorzetten. Dat schrijft staatssecretaris van Financiën Eelco Eerenberg (D66) in een brief aan de Kamer. Eerder uitten techexperts kritiek op de aanbesteding, omdat hiermee het innen van miljarden euro’s aan belasting in gevaar zou kunnen komen.

Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a $4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
It should also be noted that beyond the ethical, political and environmental issues with this is that it doesn't work:
1. There is on average no mid to long term productivity gain with actual real-world software development that isn't just a "wow see what it can do" demo. (Multiple studies have shown that now.)
2. It won't help with 90% of the work when professionally making software, which, believe it or not, isn't coding. 90% of the work is designing and planning the software (these are things that happen both upfront and during development).
Maybe you have seen the recent Microsoft thing rolling back features in Windows they added?
E.g. Copilot in Notepad. What they did is essentially outsourcing project management to developers who then outsourced it to LLMs. But an LLMs can't plan and design software, and arguably barely can even generate code that works (as in reliable and performant). So now they have a buggy mess with features no one wants and they're rolling it back.
There's no silver bullets in software development.

How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/india-technology-jobs-ai.html

India Built the World’s Back Office. A.I. Is Starting to Shrink It.
Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it’s too late.