Post #2970721
2026-03-12 23:55 UTC
It's essentially "outsourcing as a service", replacing what can be spectacularly complex contract negotiations with a comparatively straightforward price per token. Even if prices per token were to increase to actually profitable/sustainable levels, a single displaced outsourcing contract will pay for a *lot* of tokens.
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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 00:16
This changes where I see employment risks from agentic AI development: * likely devastating for software contracting shops (why negotiate a contract for developers of unknown skill levels vs subscribing to a token based service?) * largely negative for software shops that avoid outsourcing (it's easier to scale token usage up and down than it is to go through hiring/lay-off cycles or negotiate outsourcing contracts) * potentially neutral for non-software orgs that already outsource heavily
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@blackoverflow@norden.social 2026-03-13 15:56
@ancoghlan@mastodon.social This assumes that the expected quality of both strategies is comparable. Given that the experienced quality with outsourcing is often bad, that assumption may hold...