[DanHulton]

We've been here before. Outsourcing of coding was really big for a while, until the reality of that situation caught up with those who practiced it - if you were saving a bundle on outsourcing your coding work, you were only saving money _now._ Down the line, you'd have to pay extra for someone competent to re-implement the work with an eye to quality.

(Sure, there were good outsourcing shops, but you didn't tend to save too much with them, since they knew they were good and charged appropriately.)

"Slop" ai-generated code is the same tradeoff as cheap outsourcing shops. You move quicker and cheaper now, but there will come a day when code quality will dip low enough that it will be difficult enough to make new changes that a refocus on quality becomes not just worthwhile, but financially required as well.

(And you may argue that you're using ai-generated code, but are maintaining a high code quality, and so for you this day will never come and you might be right! But you're the "good outsourcing shop", and you're not "saving" nearly as much time or money as those just sloppin' it up these days, so you're not really the issue, I'd argue.)

[pixl97]

>Outsourcing of coding was really big for a while,

I can promise you outsourcing of coding is still huge.

This said, companies have changed it up a bit, instead of hiring a outsourcing shop, they'll setup their own branch in LCOL countries.

India, Portugal, a few different countries in eastern Europe are all rather large software producing countries for US companies.