Sure, quality matters. Many offshore devs would stumble over their own legs. Near shore was much better (Eastern Europe), local German devs even better, and if you got a _good_ dev, they'd easily code at 10x of an average coder.

So no wonder AI is a huge improvement over whatever most organizations did to code something up.

Corollary: this mostly affected "business" software. Anything interesting meant good devs were already gravitating to it, so the SW would be vastly higher quality (think many Silicon valley shops).