Don’t hire thoughtbot to write code

If your primary goal is to buy the largest number of development hours at the lowest possible rate, you probably shouldn’t hire thoughtbot. That has probably always been true, but AI makes it a lot more obvious. Code is ridiculously easy to produce today. Good code is not, and good decisions definitely are not. Coding agents can build working software at a pace that would have been inconceivable a few years ago, and experienced developers can use them to understand unfamiliar codebases, proto...