It's funny how there's always a cheap offshored bodyshop involved in these stories yet it's never their fault. Cue in the 9$/hour indian coders working for Boei

It's funny how there's always a cheap offshored bodyshop involved in these stories yet it's never their fault. Cue in the 9$/hour indian coders working for Boeing. Here's the thing I've learned over the years: Never touch offshored code. Always go for a complete re-write. Don't add features to it, don't refactor it, don't extend it. Just re-write. In my experience it's the best approach. I know guys who made it their whole business to go and completely re-write projects from scratch after offshoring efforts failed.