Presuming that Alex actually believes his "we will hire a better programmer for the final game" bullshit, what's the logic behind this? Allegedly he spends 12 hours a day, seven days a week coding and programming the game because he by his own admission wants the first rival to be an experience representative of the final product. But how can you do this when the final product will be programmed by a completely different person? It is by definition not going to be representative unless Alex becomes the lead programmer, but if he's the lead programmer that undermines the whole "I'm not good enough to do this so I'm going to step back and let others handle this" that hiring someone else to improve the coding presupposes.