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misiti3780yesterday at 9:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

sorry, what do you mean?


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sbarreyesterday at 9:57 PM

1. Enthusiastic employee (vibe-)codes a replacement for a turnkey SaaS product that the company uses.

2. Company uses it, maybe even starts to rely on it for important business operations, and for a time the employee supports that app.

3. Bugs creep in, feature request pile up.

4. Employee either leaves the company or moves on to another project.

5. Pain

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vladmsyesterday at 9:55 PM

If I understand correctly many organizations will not develop original stuff internally, because nobody internally wants to be the one is shouted at if something goes wrong.

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bandramiyesterday at 10:23 PM

If software already exists that does X, X is a solved problem. You didn't hire a developer to solve already-solved problems.

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