It seems hard for us to say, from the outside, how the deal ended up for them. They spent the experienced programmer’s time setting up a team of five. If they’d had GP train one person and work on code as well, they’d have one good new engineer and some code. Now they have five good new engineers.

I mean, it depends on how long it took, how much code GP could have produced in the meantime, and how sticky the lessons were. There’s certainly room to believe GP is right and it was a good trade for the company.