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Re:Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writ... by sciprojguy on Thursday June 25, 2020 @06:01AM (#23638837)
This is all great until you get to the stakeholder who prototypes something in Excel (or Honeycode, I guess) and since it only "took them a few days to do this" can't understanding why scaling it up takes six months or a year and won't listen to you when you try to explain that they under-spec'd the system by an order of magnitude.

(This happened a lot when Visual Basic came out - management types would spend a weekend playing with the visual UI editor and then give the developer a week to fill in the complicated business logic behind it.)

(Developer here who has t-shirts older than a some of the people posting)

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