alt Hacker NewsI’m just imagining the sweat on the poor IT managers’ brow.
They already lock down everything enterprise wide and hate low-code apps and services.
But in this day and age, who knows. The cynical take is that it doesn’t matter and nobody cares. Have your remaining handful of employees generate the software they need from the magic box. If there’s a security breach and they expose customer data again… who cares?
That sweat doesn't lessen dealing with nightmare fly-by-night vendors for whatever business application a department wants.
Sometimes, the devil you know is preferable -- at least then you control the source.
Folks fail to realize the status quo is often the status quo because it's optimal for a historical set of conditions.
Previously... what would your average business user be able to do productively with an IDE? Weighed against security risks? And so the point that was established.
If suddenly that business user can add substantial amounts of value to the org, I'd be very surprised if that point doesn't shift.
It matters AND...