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points by viklove 2 days ago | 0 comments

Offshore team absolutely has skin in the game, for the exact same reasons OP said -- they want to keep their roof over their head.

AI will never have this. AI is a product, and it has no motivations or self-preservation. The only goal for the AI is to increase your lifetime token spend to maximize profit for corporation.

[–] geraldwhen 2 days ago

That’s not been my experience nor the posters, I imagine.

[–] viklove 2 days ago

I think both you and said poster have misunderstood what "skin in the game" actually means.

[–] imtringued 2 days ago

His point is that the offshore structure is deeply dysfunctional.

The consulting agency tells you they hired the best senior developers, then hand the project over to a junior developer that doesn't know anything about your project and could be reassigned at any time.

[–] elevation 1 day ago

> doesn't know anything about your project

I consulted for a client who cut off an offshore consulting firm after they billed 40 hour for a one line CSS border-color fix change. We were suspicious of billing fraud, but the quality of developers we'd observed wouldn't allow us to rule out hanlon's razor.