Deisteve appears to be claiming that LLM-based techniques for automating programming will be cheap and effective enough that even that kind of outsourcing will be unprofitable by comparison.
It's like Tesla creating a full self driving car (level 5) and ending the promotional video with "Not even rickshaw drivers are safe". Just fluff.
> Neither are east european ones, Indonesian ones, or American ones for that matter. For the (unsubstantiated) claim that actual humans have been replaced.
The representation of Indonesian workers here is nil. Eastern European migrants are also unable to compete with the suppressed wages that Indian migrants can fill. It's an overwhelming motif playing out across all industries.
You can take a look at the scale of the exploitation of Indian migrant labour for reference:
This discussion is also away from my initial intent which was to find out any sort of source, whether it be a press release, a research paper, anything related to your claim of frontenders and testers being replaced.
I would still appreciate such an answer. Though I expect I'll be disappointed.
If something is simple enough to be semi-automated by writing scripts for low-trained humans, it's more likely to be simple enough to be fully automated by LLM "AI" than more complex jobs would be.