Comment by pjmlp
10 hours ago
Indeed this is offshoring taken to the next level.
Business doesn't care about the craft, they care that the use case is solved, even if the code is crap under the hood.
10 hours ago
Indeed this is offshoring taken to the next level.
Business doesn't care about the craft, they care that the use case is solved, even if the code is crap under the hood.
I will say that offshoring has developed a bad name; maybe not unreasonably. There’s some terrible outsourcing shops.
But there’s also a few that are really good. I know people that used Romanian and Polish shops that did great work. They weren’t super-cheap, but still cheaper than American contract developers.
I assume that the bad offshoring orgs are pretty nervous about AI. I also assume that the better ones are learning to incorporate AI as a force multiplier.
Interesting times, ahead…
They certainly are, https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/hcl_infosys_tcs_wipro...
We usually call that nearshore over here in Europe, exactly to differentiate the expectations of what gets delivered.