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Most Development Outsourcing Is Broken: A Reality Check For Founders

Quality dev's reject agency promises of "senior devs at low rates". They seek ownership, respect & fair pay. Prioritize quality over cheap to avoid bad code & hidden costs.

Here's my twenty years of battling bullshit practices in software development consulting. Every month, I meet founders who've been burned by outsourcing agencies promising unicorns and delivering donkeys.

  
  
  Reality Check

Let me be clear: most development outsourcing is broken. Not just "needs improvement" broken, but fundamentally, structurally broken.
I saw this firsthand at JetThoughts when Agent Inbox came to us. They'd spent a year with an agency that promised "senior developers at competitive rates." What they got was a GitHub repository full of copy-pasted Stack Overflow answers...