I don't think the author of the article claims that all contractors are bottom feeders. Some of us have done this kind of work where we were intended to fix a

I don't think the author of the article claims that all contractors are bottom feeders. Some of us have done this kind of work where we were intended to fix a set of bugs on a foreign code base. Whether or not the programmer is a contractor of FTE is not relevant, the experience of being a catfish programmer is.