Yes
A single US dev with Claude Code is orders of magnitude better than typical offshore
rightlane on Hacker News
orders of magnitude better
In the thread “Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs”
Helped: Subject matter expertise and providing the right context to the coding agent.
Got in the way: Offshore devs failing due to lack of English skills for quality prompting.
… Or to go through multi day exercises to enforce better prompting. A single US dev with Claude Code is orders of magnitude better than typical offshore. Adding local models into the mix would make offshore completely useless. …