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"When Sundar Pichai announces that 75% of all new code at Google is AI-generated, their stock price goes up. If he were to announce that 75% of all new code at Google is now written by junior engineers, this would trigger a massive sell-off and a lot of employees would resign."
A "pjmlp" replied:
"The second scenario is exactly what happens in offshoring projects...."
Except I'd say that's very possibly worse. As in, Indians delivering stuff that doesn't even pretend to work, something I saw in one of my last jobs long ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143893
Sinistra delenda est.
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