Re:Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
by dagw on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @09:54AM
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I've seen it happen too. No amount of "don't" was enough to convince them...6 month later they had a weird hacky solution that solved their problem and was used across the company and on the whole seemed to do what the relevant people needed it to do.
I've actually seen it happen using exactly that.
A (non-tech) person trying to write an inventory management software for their company (which is highly regulated and inspected) using Google AppSheets.
No amount of "don't" was enough to convince them... 6 months and much of their sanity later they gave up.