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This is the biggest unspoken story in tech.

The era of American developer exceptionalism is over.

Talent abroad has access to the same tools, education, and increasingly, network. American engineers will be replaced wholesale with overseas engineers that cost a fraction of American labor.

You can hire talented React engineers for $50k that will work harder than their American counterparts.

It's not just React. Overseas markets have DevOps, SREs, embedded, systems engineers, you name it.

For years Americans joked that overseas labor was subpar. It's not, or at least it isn't in today's world.

parent echelon 1 year ago

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