[joncfoo]

Have you come across sqlc? https://docs.sqlc.dev/en/stable/

It gets rid of the crufty parts of DB interaction with Go.

[nprateem]

I did, but didn't end up trying it. Being able to hire a Spring dev for $10 p/h vs several times that for a golang dev (plus time learning a particular codebase) just means it doesn't make sense to use Go if you want to outsource in future.

I plan to run multiple experiments in parallel, keep working the day job and outsource the ones that take off. So the more standardised I can make the tech stack, the faster and cheaper dev work will be.

[victor106]

$10 p/h ?

are you joking? if you can find good (I don't want really great) Spring devs for under $80.00 p/h let me know.

You can hire at that rate and everyone I hired had faked their experience and could get through the interview but did a terrible job.

So we ended up firing everyone and had 3 devs for above $110 p/h that were truly awesome who got the job done.

[nprateem]

Yeah I'll see how it goes. Tbh at the moment I expect those bottom end devs are worse than just using chatgpt directly. I'll probably have to spend more time explaining to them what I want.

Once IDE plugins can scan the majority of a codebase it'll be easier to just write a bulleted set of requirements and let it get on with it.

But anyway I was talking to a friend who's hired some great Ukrainians quite cheaply and I hear there are some good devs in the Philippines.

[sgt]

Being able to hire a decent Spring (or any good developer) at $10 p/h is HIGHLY theoretical.

[nprateem]

Any with any sense will be using chatgpt anyway. It's how I've written most of it. And it's easier to just add to a working project than set one up.

But yeah, we'll see...