Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom

Re:Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco'... by woah on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:38PM (#50340446)

This seems like a complete opposite of what you'd expect. Why hire a team of mediocre overseas workers to prompt Claude (your characterization), then have to talk to them only at weird times of day, and have a 12 hour turnaround on anything? Instead you could have one or two local devs from your social circle, swing by their desk at 9am and they have the feature that Claude built merged by lunch?

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Re:Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco'... by bigfatkitten on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:39PM (#50342484)

Because in any decent sized organisation, the speed at which code is written has never been the bottleneck (even if management thinks that it is.)

Internal turf wars, endless meetings to get “alignment” and pivoting on management’s latest whims are what slows feature delivery.

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Re:Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco'... by lnkdinsuxs on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:56PM (#50340763)

> swing by their desk at 9am and they have the feature that Claude built merged by lunch?

At the scale where hiring overseas workers make sense, there are atleast one PM, QA people, Ops - likely teams, not just one person per, involved. No one is releasing a feature to prod by lunch.

The workflow you propose is a very good representation of SMBs and they are behaving as you have proposed - hire one or two local devs from Austin, call them over Slack and release to prod by lunch.

So yes, this is happening, just wanted to point out that the "overseas workers" workflow is at a different scale of operations.

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Re:Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco'... by ramesh31 on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:33PM (#50341370)

>Instead you could have one or two local devs from your social circle, swing by their desk at 9am and they have the feature that Claude built merged by lunch?

Because the amount of skill it takes to do that is not commensurate with a salary high enough to afford living in SF.

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Re:Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco'... by pfannkuchen on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:36PM (#50341423)

Then won’t cost of living in sf drop?

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Re:Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco'... by lnkdinsuxs on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:40PM (#50341474)

eventually but the large share of a person living in SF are their state+city taxes, various fees like parking and rent. Those are not going down overnight but jobs are being lost faster than that.

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