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> It's offshoring 2.0

Doesn’t this analogy break down inasmuch as offshoring eventually worked?

T-shirts are made in Bangladesh while code is still being made by extremely well compensated professionals in developed countries. That's despite code being easier to transport internationally than clothes. It's hard to say that it's worked yet.

> while code is still being made by extremely well compensated professionals in developed countries

T-shirts are also being made in small print shops across America. As is code being written on the cheap in Poland, Brazil and India.

Sure, but I don't think that the code being produced in the US is "small code shops" producing artisanal code. It's not about whether code is produced in other places, it's if it's produced at a high scale locally. I don't think it's a problem that Poland and India have programmers.

A lot of code is made by people in countries with relatively low incomes, eg eastern Europe. Most of the software in your car is probably written by an offshore team for example.

That probably explains why most people use Android Auto and Apple CarPlay!

Probably not for their engine control unit or their abs controller.

The problem is not with offshoring, per se but the mentality of the person doing the offshoring and why they are doing it.

Did it?

It did, e.g. Poland have very good bang for buck ratio. Something like Bangladesh wouldn't work for IT, but more developed countries will

The challenge with Poland, is that if there is going to be WW3 soon it looks likely to be the immediate front lines. So relatively high risk, from a business disruption perspective.

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