AI threatens India’s software exporters and the middle class it built

Pathway to success and prosperity under software boom looks uncertain amid tech shift The arrival of artificial intelligence is threatening the core business model of manpower-based billing, as clients now gravitate towards rewarding impact over input. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters) BENGALURU — In the mid-1990s, dinner table conversations at Rajdeep Palchowdhury's one-bedroom tenement in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata often revolved around his future. Almost every time, his parents concluded that he ought to work in software.

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