--- title: Don’t hire thoughtbot to write code | daily.dev description: AI has made writing code fast and cheap, which raises the bar for what a premium software consultancy must deliver beyond raw coding output. Thoughtbot argues... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-hire-thoughtbot-to-write-code-yqmrawa25 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Don’t hire thoughtbot to write code | daily.dev og:description: AI has made writing code fast and cheap, which raises the bar for what a premium software consultancy must deliver beyond raw coding output. Thoughtbot argues... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-hire-thoughtbot-to-write-code-yqmrawa25 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yqmrawA25.png og:image:alt: Don’t hire thoughtbot to write code og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Don’t hire thoughtbot to write code **[thoughbot](https://daily.dev/sources/thoughbot)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI has made writing code fast and cheap, which raises the bar for what a premium software consultancy must deliver beyond raw coding output. Thoughtbot argues clients should hire consultancies for judgment, the ability to disagree and challenge assumptions, identifying the real problem (which may be product rather than engineering), and building smaller, more capable teams rather than simply adding headcount. 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