And who will fix the slop? Not Silicon Valley programs being paid $200K or whatever. We stand on the verge of a golden age of outsourcing in software which will make all previous phases of outsourcing look like trial runs.

I live in what's probably the outsourcing capital of the world (though I thankfully don't work in those body shops).

I don't think there's going to be a rush to outsource. In fact, I suspect that it's quite the opposite scenario going to play out.

Primarily because now that the cost to produce the boring/mundane stuff that is the stuff of outsourcing (internal tooling, dashboards, ERP, integrations, QA etc.), it will likely be much more cost effective to hire 3 devs in the US and give them hefty token budgets and have much easier coordination and communication loops than outsourcing to a Bangalore body shop that will try and bill you 15 engineers for the same work.

In fact, word on the street here is that there's a significant correction in the Bangalore realty market for the first time in history thanks to the IT salaries drying up. [1]

I suspect LLMs are going to have a global worldwide deflationary effect what with white collar salaries at risk. The only counter acting force might be the distortions caused by recent wars and tariff shenanigans of the US government.

But even having said all of that I am hopeful for the eventual benefits human beings can reap from the advent of LLMS. The only thing that keeps me up at night is my lack of faith in the aging gerontocracy (worldwode phenomenon) that all our futures are in the hands of that seems to be ill equipped to handle this period of what is most likely massive upheaval and uncertainty.

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/real-estate/news/housing...

Project "Death by a thousand cuts"

I come to conclusion that software source code will be kind of ephemeral output, like binaries are today. If you are not happy about slop accumulation, you take still valid functional requirements, docs, API contracts, test cases, some selection of still valid prompt history, and let better agent rewrite everything from scratch. Even if the session costs $200K one time - that is very cheap even for SMEs.

Won't this mean that a lot of developers in Silicon Valley will find themselves out of a job? If the competition (AI operators) can sit 8000 miles away and be paid peanuts.

This is cope. There is no going back to artisan programming. Any issues will also be fixed by ai agents.