The GPU Is the New Bangalore (opens in new tab)

In the 2000s, the hottest move in software was offshoring. You'd ship your requirements to a development shop in India, Vietnam, or Bangladesh, pay a fraction of Western developer rates, and wait. The cost savings were real, every spreadsheet said so. The failure modes were also real, every CTO said so.Even assuming that the teams working on your code were smart, motivated, and hardworking, the distance, communication overhead, the time zone mismatch, and misaligned incentives created a bruta...