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These are code generators right? Right? With the usual code generation issues with debugging, verification, or long term maintenance? Or they are workflow tool
by AtlasBarfed 4y ago
These are code generators right? Right? With the usual code generation issues with debugging, verification, or long term maintenance?
Or they are workflow tools, sold with simple graphical demos of easy state machines / START -> box -> box -> box -> DONE flows, but when the rubber hits the road you encounter branching, loops, retries, subroutines, error codes, suspended/paused flows, state management, and full on turing machine processing.
Or they are AI tools, and you are relying on statistical probabilities that the code does what you want to, and statistical probabilities that the AI isn't producing the answer that looks right and the one you want versus the actual answer?
Or you are writing so much testing/quality control /verification that you might as well have coded in the first place?
Finally, you are invariably dealing with a vendor, and massive massive massive vendor lockin. Have fun when Oracle acquires them, triples the price, and audits you every other year.