I have learned from two different clients that it's easy to hire a "cheap" contractor to create a website/app. Getting value out of it is really difficult, thou

I have learned from two different clients that it's easy to hire a "cheap" contractor to create a website/app. Getting value out of it is really difficult, though. If you're not technical, it's difficult to formulate the problem succinctly enough that priorities are obvious and non-negotiable to the contractor. Mind you, as long as they have other clients, they have no incentive to work on the most important things first; they'll bill the hours either way. In fact, the longer they can punt the final piece that makes you happy, the more they earn. So even if we replace my coding skills with HAL2000, I'll just continue up the ladder and help people build software development plans to feed ChatGPT, or its contractors. Writing code is easy; writing code with a purpose is hard.