alt Hacker NewsThere was a time we all on HN agreed that contracting out the code was a bad idea. That ownership of the code was important, and if you sent your code out to a one off contractor it would come back as unmaintainable liability.
The shift in thinking leads me to believe that the real reason HN hated contracting out the code was the fact that you had to pay the contractors for their work.
There is also the possibility that a lot of HN hated outsourcing to contractors for the same reason a lot of HN hates AI: they were taking our jobs ;-)
And I think the outcome will be the same in both cases: we figure out how to outsource effectively. In fact, many of the same strategies we developed then are applicable now.