@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioDuring 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.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialTelus 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
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAnd if you're employing a spy, the legal accountability is on YOU.
Suddenly outsourcing your recruiting & HR to save ops costs doesn't sound so brilliant, does it?
#northkorea #remotework
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow 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
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioReally struggling with what goes through the mind of people outsourcing their whole profession and skill to some company that probably won’t be there anymore in two years; and if the company is still there the product won’t be anymore; and if somehow both the company and the product makes it through it will be completely unaffordable.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116075240282086322
Relying on a single platform is bad (ask any YouTuber) but outsourcing your own skills to a platform is end-game terrible.
