Re: Facebook Account

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:01:43 -0400, Radey Shouman
<shouman@comcast.net> wrote:

A great deal of programming is done today by AIs (Actual Indians). 

In about 1999, management was experimenting with outsourcing a product
design to someone they found on monster.com in India.  I was not
directly involved in this product.  The manager would call India about
once per week to obtain status updates.  One day, he mentioned that he
had called and received a "no progress" report because of a holiday.
As the project continued, such "no progress" reports continued to be
quite frequent.  As you might suspect, the project was late and poorly
designed.  Hint:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_India>

I could also expound on some more past outsourcing horror stories but
it's less work to just post a link so I don't need to violate an NDA
in order to tell the story:
<https://www.google.com/search?q=outsourcing+horror+stories>

I won't hold my breath waiting for artificial intelligence to become
reliable or cost effective.

I believe that AI will eventually become an improvement over
outsourcing.

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