> If the code passes tests, and also works at the functionality level

Why doesn’t outsourcing work if this is all that is needed?

We haven’t fully proven that it is any different. Not at scale anyway. It took a decade for the seams of outsourcing to break.

But I have a hypothesis.

The quality of the output, when you don’t own the long term outcome or maintenance, is very poor.

This is not the case with AI in the same sense it is with human contractors.

Why do we have managers if managers don’t have accountability?

	▲	jdjdjssh an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I’m not sure what you’re getting at. I’m saying there’s a lot more to creating useful software than “tests pass / limited functionality checks work” from a purely technical perspective.