Amazes me that people pay 20k a month for a dev rather than paying 2k a month for one in Poland or 1k a month for one from India

There’s obviously a benefit of paying higher rates for US programmers, but does that benefit change when llms are thrown into the mix

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apercu 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My experience with outsourcing over 20+ years (Russia, Romania, India, South America) is that you just move money around when you do it.

It takes more planning, more specification, more coordination, more QA. The quality is almost always worse, and remediation takes forever. So your BA, QA and PM time goes way up and absorbs any cost savings.

YMMV.

	▲	thewebguyd 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sounds like an LLM, tbh. Using Claude also takes more planning, more explicit specification, prompting, more manual review, more QA.

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aurareturn 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Makes no sense because LLMs makes it far less worth it to outsource developers.

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forgotlastlogin 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

2k in Poland you say...