{"id":994916,"date":"2026-02-26T07:42:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994916"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:28:34","slug":"to-trade-coders-for-legos-india-needs-a-better-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/to-trade-coders-for-legos-india-needs-a-better-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"To trade coders for legos, India needs a better deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a quarter-century, software services have been India\u2019s calling card. No longer. The next 25 years belong to tokens \u2014 the Lego bricks of the artificial-intelligence era. As AI agents require quintillions of them to supplant human effort, India is pitching its tent there. But is that wise? <\/p>\n<p>New Delhi has offered a 20-year tax holiday to any foreign company setting up inference hubs \u2014 token factories that convert electrons into intelligence \u2014 to meet AI agents\u2019 24\/7 workload. Given that these algorithms will be empowered to act autonomously, writing their own programs, where will this leave the country\u2019s 6 million coders?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a quarter-century, software services have been India\u2019s calling card. No longer. The next 25 years belong to tokens \u2014 the Lego bricks of the artificial-intelligence era. As AI agents require quintillions of them to supplant human effort, India is pitching its tent there. But is that wise? New Delhi has offered a 20-year tax holiday to any foreign company setting up inference hubs \u2014 token factories that convert electrons into intelligence \u2014 to meet AI agents\u2019 24\/7 workload. Given that these algorithms will be empowered to act autonomously, writing their own programs, where will this leave the country\u2019s 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}