Post #2970722
2026-03-13 00:16 UTC
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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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 06:38
Appending a further related observation that came up in another thread: streamlining outsourcing of custom software development, or even routinely outsourced knowledge work in general, still isn't a big enough market to justify the current sky high evaluations and overblown rhetoric around generative AI, so this "outsourcing-as-a-service" realisation is just a glimpse of what a post-bubble world might look like, not a claim of anything more significant than that.
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@daedalus@eigenmagic.net 2026-03-13 02:10
@ancoghlan@mastodon.social Accenture-as-a-Service