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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by Npovview on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:08PM (#48281660)
Even with increased prices, AI enables velocity both in development and bugs fixing. Would companies want that? If prices are biting the company, I think companies will route all development and bugs fixing requests through few superperfomer developers with complete knowledge of the different components within the company (they will be the Queen Bees holding the company on their head). The rest of the company will be tasked with requirment gathering, specs cleaning, deambiguation and so on (worker bees).
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by DougN7 on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:34PM (#48283883)
From what I understand, that is sort of how IBM Bob works - multiple models behind the scenes and they route the request to the model that will handle it best at the lowest price.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by runtime_terror on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:55PM (#48285127)
So kinda like how stuff is now at a lot of big companies? I've worked at many different companies and almost always there are a few out-performers and a lot of people just found enough not to get fired (no hate, power to them lol).

We're already seeing slash their AI budgets. I expect that will increase till we hit more of an equilibrium.

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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by Npovview on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:05AM (#48294594)
I think people will start measuring (features * time taken to implement) to tokens consumed ratio and then redistribute token budgets to developers. This will measure how effective/efficient people are LLMs.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by curt15 on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:23PM (#48287856)
> Even with increased prices, AI enables velocity both in development and bugs fixing.

What about human understanding of the codebase that's essential to any project's long term health? Even "superperformer developers" eventually leave the company.

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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by Npovview on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:57AM (#48294464)
Ask multiple AIs (if you can't trust one) to explain the project.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by 0xbadcafebee on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @09:44PM (#48288426)
Most software development teams are pushing back on the deluge of bad changes from AI tools and are moving slower again to regain trust and stability. It is likely that future software development will not actually be higher velocity.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by Npovview on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @10:20PM (#48288684)
Bad changes will be eliminated because better people are using the AI tools. They will reduce cost as well as slop.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:41AM (#48292723)
The models are the same whether you're smart or dumb
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by kakacik on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:32AM (#48293271)
Yes and we will all hold hands together singing and bring world peace from now on forever. Back in reality, I can see some obstacles without even trying
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by Npovview on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:11AM (#48294703)
Do you want 60% of people to be employed in farming? I am being rhetorical because that is what you sarcasm implies. Today only 2% of people in farming support so many people in America.
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Re:Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical... by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:54AM (#48292293)
> AI enables velocity both in development and bugs fixing

Or so they say. You'll have to trust those vibes blindly, because double-checking these claims apparently makes you an anti-science luddite.

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