Rewriting rules of global tech outsourcing

In a small development shop in Karachi, a team of programmers watches their project pipeline shrink. Thousands of miles away in Manila, an IT outsourcing firm retrains its entire staff in AI integration. Meanwhile, in Bangalore, a major tech consultancy automates tasks that once required dozens of developers. This is the new reality of global tech outsourcing, which is experiencing its most significant transformation since the digital revolution of the 1990s. Software outsourcing has been the backbone of economic growth in emerging markets for decades. Countries like India, the Philippines, and Pakistan have leveraged their skilled, affordable workforce to become global IT powerhouses. But today, artificial intelligence isn’t just changing the game, it’s rewriting the rules entirely.