| The Uncomfortable Truth About Offshore Every enterprise has the same story. You hired TCS, Infosys, Wipro, or Cognizant. The pitch was compelling: $45/hour versus $150/hour. The math was obvious. You'd save millions. Then reality hit. You don't have 200 engineers in India. You have 12-18 real shippers in the US and a 180-person tax. I've seen this pattern repeat across cable, big pharma, insurance, and more. At one Fortune 500, they had 55 engineers on the books. Only 3 were trusted to deliver end-to-end without handholding. The other 52? They generated work for those 3. Enter AI (But Not How You Think) Here's where it gets interesting. Everyone's talking about AI coding assistants. Cursor raised at a $29 billion valuation. GitHub Copilot is on every developer's machine. The narrative is "AI will make developers faster." That's thinking too small. The real disruption isn't making your 200 offshore engineers 20% faster at typing. It's eliminating the need for 180 of them entirely. |