We saw a surge of crappy American programmers in the late 90s, arriving on the other side of the dot-com boom. The exact same kinds of problems, slightly mitigated by the fact that when someone is on-site sitting next to you, it is a little easier to walk them through what they're doing wrong.
You've hit the nail on the head though - we're setting ourselves up for exactly the same kind of problems we first started seeing in the 90s, and then much more as we started importing 'cheap talent' from abroad and created a boom in demand for warm bodies that could type.
You've hit the nail on the head though - we're setting ourselves up for exactly the same kind of problems we first started seeing in the 90s, and then much more as we started importing 'cheap talent' from abroad and created a boom in demand for warm bodies that could type.