The GPU Is the New Bangalore

Drawing a direct parallel between 2000s offshore outsourcing and today's AI-assisted coding, the core argument is that the same disciplines that separated successful offshore engagements from disasters now apply to working with LLMs. The bottleneck in software development has shifted from writing code to specifying, decomposing, and verifying it. Clear problem specification, iterative delivery, and rigorous code review are now the most valuable engineering skills. The post also pushes back on the multi-agent orchestration trend, arguing that good software design with clear module boundaries and interface contracts is a better solution to coordination problems than complex agent orchestration.