There was a wave of outsourcing of engineering jobs to countries with cheaper labor back in the 1990s and 2000s, all at the expensive of quality, accompanied by

There was a wave of outsourcing of engineering jobs to countries with cheaper labor back in the 1990s and 2000s, all at the expensive of quality, accompanied by mass layoffs in the western countries of course. The industry was testing the limits of how much lower the bars of quality can go until customers stop paying for software, and as it turned out, customers could tolerate a lot. Now, AI is the new outsourcing it seems. Let's lower the bars of quality, see how much crappiness and glitchiness can be tolerated, freeze it right there as the new "industry standard" and move on to the next cost cutting thing.