The key thing that I feel often gets overlooked in these discussions is that those offshore people are using AI tools as well. It's not "AI or offshoring", it's

The key thing that I feel often gets overlooked in these discussions is that those offshore people are using AI tools as well. It's not "AI or offshoring", it's "offshoring to AI". Because those offshore workers can now be far more productive and can produce written output that's just as good as the stuff native speakers are doing, unlike the broken English responses that used to often distinguish outsourced work. Of course it doesn't for everything - outsourcing never does. But why pay a western salary for someone to use ChatGPT and CoPilot when you can pay a fraction of that to get someone in another country achieving largely the same thing.