AI Threatens India's IT Jobs Engine: Traditional Outsourcing Roles Are 'Totally Dead'
zijing_wu · x · 2026-08-12
The post highlights an on-the-ground report regarding the impact of AI on India's IT industry. The article notes that "in India, a traditional IT job is totally dead."
This reflects how generative AI is substantially disrupting entry-level programming and outsourcing tech roles that once served as pillars of the Indian economy, revealing a profound structural transformation in the global software engineering industry.
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