Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence by hdgvhicv on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:41AM (#47272132)

Amazes me that people pay 20k a month for a dev rather than paying 2k a month for one in Poland or 1k a month for one from India

There’s obviously a benefit of paying higher rates for US programmers, but does that benefit change when llms are thrown into the mix

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Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence by forgotlastlogin on Friday March 06, 2026 @06:12AM (#47273523)

2k in Poland you say...

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Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence by apercu on Friday March 06, 2026 @06:49AM (#47273832)

My experience with outsourcing over 20+ years (Russia, Romania, India, South America) is that you just move money around when you do it.

It takes more planning, more specification, more coordination, more QA. The quality is almost always worse, and remediation takes forever. So your BA, QA and PM time goes way up and absorbs any cost savings.

YMMV.

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Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence by thewebguyd on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:36AM (#47277234)

Sounds like an LLM, tbh. Using Claude also takes more planning, more explicit specification, prompting, more manual review, more QA.

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Re:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence by aurareturn on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:51AM (#47274345)

Makes no sense because LLMs makes it far less worth it to outsource developers.

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