Sorry folks it is true.
Programming is a utility service like bookkeeper. I had a room full of Chinese programmers at about $10/hr and with a good amount of management and patient communications I was able to turn out a lot of really good programs.
Knowing what to program, why, establishing QA/QC and managing all the programs to work together — THAT is the skill set you need today.
I have no doubts about that. What other locations are good? India? Philippines?
I am sure that the Chinese are good programmers but software is now the epicenter of strategic advantage and America needs to the knowledge domestically or become a third world backwater. Face it you either make the things you need yourself or you are dependent and must pay others either with money or servitude.
“Programming is a utility service like bookkeeper. I had a room full of Chinese programmers at about $10/hr and with a good amount of management and patient communications I was able to turn out a lot of really good programs.”
Admitting you are part of the race to the bottom by doing business with a militarized corrupt polluting slave state may not be as acceptable someday as it is today.
I run my own engineering firm (building structures and services) and disgusted that many leaders in my industry are starting to outsource and import temp slave labor. I’ll starve before I outsource 1 hour to some hellhole that treats people like machines.
It’s absolutely disgusting how manufacturing in this country was gutted and we can no longer buy anything made here. I always made a point to buy American but some things you simply can’t these days.
Even though I had many opportunities to get personally wealthier from it, I refuse to participate in this garbage colonization of the USA. Our scum “leaders” allowed this in order to fill their own pockets at most Americans’ expense.