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The big problem with this is that we're already competing to some extent with outsourcing shops in China and India and this trend is more likely to grow than no
by nikdaheratik 10y ago
The big problem with this is that we're already competing to some extent with outsourcing shops in China and India and this trend is more likely to grow than not. While I believe there will always be an incentive to keep these jobs in-house and local, there is no reason to think it will grow to the extent that middle class blue collar work did through the industrial revolution.
- teknologist 10y agoI work in China as a programmer and the local outsourcing shops tend to throw tons of very cheap labour at anything. Unless you're building critical or sensitive systems this model can work (even for physical products and civil engineering if "QA'd" enough through brute force). It's a complete pain in the ass for the in-house team who have to pick up the pieces and maintain the code, though.
- nikdaheratik 10y agoI've worked on code that came from those shops (though maybe India more than China) and I completely agree. But it's still going to be hard to make the case for coding to expand the way auto manufacturing did, for example, when we're already outsourcing a huge chunk of work. And there's no reason to think they won't get better at the work there in any case.