If someone offered a whole team of devs in India for an unknown number of months basically for free, one would be a fool to turn that down even knowing it wouldn't last forever. Claude etc feels like the same kinda deal.
I've made a lot of money fixing software where people paid for those offshore teams and they would have been better off having not done that and writing maintainable software from the start. They were fools paying for it and they still would have been fools if it had been free.
Sure, I've been part of "in-sourcing" failing projects too, but it was always a sign of management incompetence rather than anything else. It's easy to shift the blame to an outsourcer when it's been GIGO; constantly changing requirements, feature creep, no budget for maintenance, the usual stuff that kills codebases.
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I've made a lot of money fixing software where people paid for those offshore teams and they would have been better off having not done that and writing maintainable software from the start. They were fools paying for it and they still would have been fools if it had been free.
Sure, I've been part of "in-sourcing" failing projects too, but it was always a sign of management incompetence rather than anything else. It's easy to shift the blame to an outsourcer when it's been GIGO; constantly changing requirements, feature creep, no budget for maintenance, the usual stuff that kills codebases.