[drno123]

It is fascinating how those expensive IT companies that get enormous government contracts, with huge profit margins, always hire shitty programmers.

[Lionga]

I dont think the programmers are the problem. The problem are companies getting government contracts are good at exactly that getting government contracts. That mostly involves doing bribes without them beeing official corruption.

They are horseshit at anything after that

[thrower123]

Typically the way this works is that the A-listers are trotted out for the initial dog-and-pony show and prototype, then they move on to the next boondoggle and are backfilled by a rotating cast of Elbonians billing the same rate to flesh out the details.

And that's where things go sideways.

[indymike]

Behold the power of cost plus contracts.