alt Hacker NewsThat 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...
Yeah. I used to manage a team that built a kind of low-code SaaS solution to several big enterprise clients. I sat in on several calls with our sales people and the customer’s IT department.
They liked buying SAP or M$ because it was fully integrated and turnkey. Every SaaS vendor they added had to be SOC2, authenticate with SAML, and each integration had to be audited… it was a lot of work for them.
And we were highly trained, certified developers. I had to sign documents and verify our stack with regulatory consultants.
I just don’t see that fear going away with agents and LLM prompts from frontline workers who have no training in IT security, management, etc. There’s a reason why AI tech needs humans in the loop: to take the blame when they thumbs up what it outputs.