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by ponector 308 days ago
Hiring is slower, salaries for open positions are down as well. But the reason is more offshoring to cheaper locations than AI.

As of AI, I've been asked to test a partial rewrite of the current UI to the new components. For a few weeks I've been logging 10+ bugs a day. The only explanation I have, they use AI tool to produce nicely looking code which does not work properly in a complex app.
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xtracto 308 days ago
Just a comment: One of the reasons why offshoring is increasing and will likely increase in the following year, is because CXOs are being sold that a cheap Mexican, Tico, or Indian using AI can be as performant as a local.(also Language barriers are decreasing also due to AI)

I'm Mexican (in Mexico) and I've seen this firsthand. There may be some truth to it, but soon enough these new companies will find out what several others found in the 90s (when the first wave of tech outsourcing came): The bottleneck is in communication and culture, not performance.

Anyway, point is, in a way AI is pushing the outsourcing trend a bit.

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ponector 308 days ago
The next stage of offshoring: companies offshored to Eastern Europe are now offshoring to India due to substantial rise of salaries and costs in EE.
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xtracto 306 days ago
Someone close to me works in Workday. About 3 years ago, Workday arrived to Mexico and opened a lot of positions. They opened offices in several cities as well.

Fast forward to today, Someone up in the management chain decided that Costa Rica was better, closed any openings in Mexico and even "downgraded " the manager positions (became ICs) of people already working there.

I find it a bit funny watching my connationals get angry at exactly the same thing that allowed them to be employed in the first place.

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