I was on a 6-month project with some body shop consultants. We were a small, boutique consultancy that outsourced work to a much larger body shop. They barely did any work, and what little work they did was some of the worst quality stuff I've seen in my life. They told us they had completed "phase 1" of a project. It didn't work at all. And we still paid them.

I do wonder how the proliferation of LLM-aided programming will impact this.

I'd much rather have a "vibe" generated codebase as a deliverable over what these body shops churn out.

Speaking from experience with both.