can you elaborate on your thesis as to why? it seems to me, with raw code being less of a bottleneck, things like understanding the spec, polishing, and doing the fuzzy work around the edges become all the more important. These were never strengths of outsourcing. In fact, I think that the fact that those parts are important is a big reason why the profession as a whole wasnt entirely just outsourced, despite the compelling economic reasons for it.

Isn't it the other way around, AI replacing outsourcing? AI can do the implementation work, but you still need the human who needs to specify what has to be done, give architecture guidance and check and accept the resulting work (or reject it, with notes on what to fix). AI coding is basically outsourcing to AI

I was rich even before I came into this field, my family owns lots of agriculture land and I came to this field for passion of it and was never really motivated by money.

Thing is AI is taking outsourced jobs in india at much faster rate than elsewhere.

The latest layoff coming from Oracle mostly laid off workers in india.

Awful take in my humble opinion. Outsourced, vibe-coders as a concept is beyond scary.