The greater a sector’s exposure to A.I., the more likely it is to offshore jobs to lower-income countries. Soon, Americans working in areas like marketing, financial analysis and software development could see their jobs sent overseas.
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Global positions are already replacing domestic positions in droves.
Same level of advancement? Generative AI has felt like it's plateau'd for quite a while now... Or even regressed in some ways. GPT 4o has been constantly re-introducing an API to me for my personal project that I've told it doesn't exist anymore like five times now.
Yeah, the problem is anyone who has used AI knows it’s not ready at all to replace or significantly speed up development for complex tasks. I’m a huge proponent of LLMs but they aren’t there yet and in my opinion we have at least 5 years if they can even continue the same level of advancement they have had which I am skeptical.
Software engineering is a very difficult task with most of the work being complex thought and how to make large scale systems work properly. AI in a lot of cases spits out complete nonsense or lacks the broader understanding required to solve the problem.
With all that said, we have terrible hype driven leadership at this company who are extremely gullible. They truly believe these technologies are already at AGI levels and are making poor decisions like offshoring to less skilled markets in hopes that AI will make up the gap in quality. It will not but all of us will still be burned in the process.