2026-09-13 19:20 UTC
I've been getting a steady stream of these unsolicited messages. The pitch is always the same: “Use your US location to attract clients, pretend to be the one doing all the work, and we'll subcontract for you on the sly.”
Are we looking at a return of old-school offshoring? but now with a sort of Mechanical Turk flavor?
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io 2026-09-13 19:23
I've thought often the last couple of years about how the “Fire your developers! Use AI!!” craze feels really similar to the outsourcing / offshoring mania of a few decades ago — and how many of the same problems it shares: - Cost-cutting shiny thing break management brains - but turns out generating code was the easy part - and building cumulative shared understanding is everything - and shortcuts around that dig you in a hole really fast - and that hole is full of code that nobody can maintain. Something in the water, I guess. Something always in the water that once in a while explodes when conditions are right, like algae blooms.