About a decade ago I worked as a software developer consultant at a company that were in the process of outsourcing all their software development to India…
A team of 6 Indians were hired in to take over the piece of software my team was developing. All 6 Indians had CVs that mentioned 10+ years of Java development experience, which was the language the software was written in.
However after working with them for a full month it was pretty clear that none of them were very skilled. One of them was clearly better than the rest, and he confided with me that he actually only had a 12 week programming course as experience.
This was far from a unique experience. Some of the other pieces of functionality had been running with an outsourcing team for 3 years. And despite daily status updates and constant checking up on them, they had yet to provide anything that actually worked.
The company itself was pretty clearly a huge part of the problem as they had pretty much opted for the cheapest possible outsourcing firm…
But all in all Claude would have run circles around pretty much every outsourcing developer I saw during that assignment… To be honest a single Claude license would probably have been a stronger contender than all 150 outsourcing developers combined…
That’s a very large amount of jobs that are very directly threatened by AI.
About a decade ago I worked as a software developer consultant at a company that were in the process of outsourcing all their software development to India…
A team of 6 Indians were hired in to take over the piece of software my team was developing. All 6 Indians had CVs that mentioned 10+ years of Java development experience, which was the language the software was written in.
However after working with them for a full month it was pretty clear that none of them were very skilled. One of them was clearly better than the rest, and he confided with me that he actually only had a 12 week programming course as experience.
This was far from a unique experience. Some of the other pieces of functionality had been running with an outsourcing team for 3 years. And despite daily status updates and constant checking up on them, they had yet to provide anything that actually worked.
The company itself was pretty clearly a huge part of the problem as they had pretty much opted for the cheapest possible outsourcing firm…
But all in all Claude would have run circles around pretty much every outsourcing developer I saw during that assignment… To be honest a single Claude license would probably have been a stronger contender than all 150 outsourcing developers combined…
That’s a very large amount of jobs that are very directly threatened by AI.