Every company I’ve been at follows this cycle: offshore to Cognizant for pennies, C-suite gets a bonus for saving money. In about two years, fire Cognizant because they suck and your code is a disaster, onshore, get a bonus for solving a huge problem. In about two years, offshore to Cognizant and get a bonus for saving money. Repeat forever.
This will follow the same rhythm but with different actors: the cheap labor is always there, and sometimes senior devs come in to replace the chatbots because the bots are failing in ways offshore can’t make up for: either fundamental design problems that shouldn’t have been used as a roadmap, or incompetently generated code that offshore assumes is correct because it compiles. This will all get built up and built around until it’s both a broken design AND deeply embedded in your stack. The new role of a senior dev will be contract work slicing these Gordian knots.
Every company I’ve been at follows this cycle: offshore to Cognizant for pennies, C-suite gets a bonus for saving money. In about two years, fire Cognizant because they suck and your code is a disaster, onshore, get a bonus for solving a huge problem. In about two years, offshore to Cognizant and get a bonus for saving money. Repeat forever.
This will follow the same rhythm but with different actors: the cheap labor is always there, and sometimes senior devs come in to replace the chatbots because the bots are failing in ways offshore can’t make up for: either fundamental design problems that shouldn’t have been used as a roadmap, or incompetently generated code that offshore assumes is correct because it compiles. This will all get built up and built around until it’s both a broken design AND deeply embedded in your stack. The new role of a senior dev will be contract work slicing these Gordian knots.