Is a cheap developer more expensive in the long run?

Usually. The pattern is predictable: three months of slow progress, an unmaintainable codebase, then paying a senior developer to rebuild it. If the budget is tight, reduce scope with a good developer rather than keeping scope with a weak one.

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Ijaz Khan, Senior Full Stack Developer

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