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eitally ◴[] No.44318713[source]
It's going to be very interesting to see how things evolve in enterprise IT, especially but not exclusively in regulated industries. As more SaaS services are at least partly vibe coded, how are CIOs going to understand and mitigate risk? As more internal developers are using LLM-powered coding interfaces and become less clear on exactly how their resulting code works, how will that codebase be maintained and incrementally updated with new features, especially in solo dev teams (which is common)?

I easily see a huge future for agentic assistance in the enterprise, but I struggle mightily to see how many IT leaders would accept the output code of something like a menugen app as production-viable.

Additionally, if you're licensing code from external vendors who've built their own products at least partly through LLM-driven superpowers, how do you have faith that they know how things work and won't inadvertently break something they don't know how to fix? This goes for niche tools (like Clerk, or Polar.sh or similar) as much as for big heavy things (like a CRM or ERP).

I was on the CEO track about ten years ago and left it for a new career in big tech, and I don't envy the folks currently trying to figure out the future of safe, secure IT in the enterprise.

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1. charlie0 ◴[] No.44319146[source]
It will succeed due to the same reason other sloppy strategies succeed, it has large short term gains and moves risk into the nebulous future. Management LOVES these types of things.