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[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

“Customer requests were sent to the Indian office, where 700 Indians wrote code instead of AI,” Engelbrecht noted, adding that the resulting apps were often buggy, dysfunctional, and riddled with unreadable code. “Everything was like real artificial intelligence,” he wrote — except that none of it was.

Oh my god... this really goes to show that companies are currently aiming to do with AI what they used to aim to do with completely offshoring their technical expertise, because in this case they appeared indistinguishable.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

To be fair, I’ve worked with some Indian developers who we offshored work to, and they did decent work.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I guess there's more emphasis due on "completely".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I’m surprised that this is surprising to you. Companies want to spend the least amount of money possible. We’ve been replacing people with tech since forever.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

“AI” stands for “absent Indians”

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

please redeem yourself, india.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

REDEEM?! WHY DID YOU REDEEM?!?!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

How can she slap?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The smart thing would be to use all of the back and forth to train model. What a waste.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

would there be a source for this article?

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