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I'm specifically speaking of the race to the bottom offshore consultancies that exploit cheap labor in foreign, largely asian countries, for export to the US to bypass paying US wages. The preexisting meme I referenced is around corporate lies where their "AI" is largely backed by offshore labor. Think the latest Waymo news, etc.

I didn't mean to imply that anyone of asian decent is inherently generating "spaghetti code". If that's how it read, I apologize, that was not my intention.

Andto further clarity, I've dealt with a number of these offshoring agencies (the really inexpensive ones specifically), and their output is very similar to what AI produces today. They have extreme turnover rates, and team assignments change at random so lost context and variable output is common. They do operate cube farms just like US workers, not sure why that's pertinent though. I also don't believe anything I'm saying is sophisticated or complex, merely stating an observation.

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