India and IT outsourcing
With improvements to GPT only accelerating with time and with more companies open-sourcing their LLMs, you have to wonder what's in store for developers. Will India lose its low-cost outsourcing advantage?
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The IT industry accounts for about 7% of India's GDP. According to the IBEF, this is expected to rise to 10% by 2025.
With improvements to GPT only accelerating with time and with more companies open-sourcing their LLMs, you have to wonder what's in store for developers. Will India lose its low-cost outsourcing advantage? It might be easier to ask OpenAI or Bard to write a function that fixes a bug than it is to fix it yourself.
That future might not be too far away. Bard, OpenAI, and other code assistants can already write small helper functions.
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The flip side could also be that an outsourced engineer can now accomplish more with help from GPT. Only time will tell. See you in 2025.