Offshoring did happen, but if you were correct that only the quality control process impacted final quality, the software industry would have looked something like e.g. garment industry, with basically zero people being paid to actually write software in the first world, and hires from the developing world not requiring much skill. What we actually see is that some offshoring occurred, but it was limited and when it did occur companies tried to hire highly trained professionals in the country they outsourced to, not the cheapest bootcamp dev they could find. That's because the quality of the code at generation does matter, so it becomes a tradeoff between cost and quality.
> I still don't think that can be assumed as a fact. The few studies I've seen find comparable outcomes, with LLMs actually having a slight edge in some cases, e.g.
Anthropic doesn't actually believe in their LLMs as strongly as you do. You know how I can tell? Because they just spent millions acquihiring the Bun team instead of asking Claude to write them a JS runtime (not to mention the many software engineering roles they're advertising on their website). They know that their SOTA LLMs still generate worse code than humans, that they can't completely make up for it in the quality control phase, and that they at the very least can't be confident of that changing in the immediate future.
