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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by marginalia_nu on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:49PM (#50433419)
If only we'd tried shipping all the understanding to coding sweatshops in India with identical disastrous results 20 years ago, maybe we would have learned from that.
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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by rabidheuristics on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:00PM (#50433569)
I see what you did there.
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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by bdangubic on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:20PM (#50433784)
on the flip side of this witty comment, (very very very) few of these that went to Bangalore etc ever returned home…
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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by keeda on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:12AM (#50437063)
This, but unironically. I mean, it was such a disaster that the Indian IT outsourcing industry grew from < $10B total revenues around Y2K to $250B today ;-)

For reference, I've actually written in detail on the parallels before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944717

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Re:A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code by proc0 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:53PM (#50446176)
Right, that's when it really started, and also why AI hype is so high. It's super-charging this tendency to scale things by outsourcing.
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