alt Hacker NewsSimon Willison’s analogy does not apply unless that other team was immediately fired after they delivered the image resize service, or (more commonly) was done by a one off contractor. The difference is the trust model. We trust that our company has hired a competent team which maintains knowledge of the image resizing service, that they respond to bug reports and feature requests and that they know how to fix and implement those.
Now I have been on HN long enough to know that we used to despise code written by contractors which we now depend on.
Why does the team need to be "fired"?
The single person who did the service might just quit and go to another job. They might be external consultants that rotate away when the contract ends. It might be a SaaS service where you don't control the code at all - nor the composition of their team.
We have trusted services, contractors and teams within our companies before. Now suddenly _everyone_ has ALWAYS read and meticulously analyzed every single line of code they have ever imported to a project?