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by commandlinefan 1183 days ago
> stuck with fixing or rewriting

Yep, can't just throw out this garbage that doesn't work, have to keep because "we paid for it already".

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There's a whole industry here in America that re-shores programming contracts. They know they can't underbid Indian/foreign body shops so they just wait a few months and call back the companies who went with cheaper programmers. If the company is still around it's generally a complete re-write.