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Those busybodies are also there to keep rogue engineers from burning money on useless features (like AI chat bots) that only serve to bolster their promo packet

• mschuster91 3y ago
  That depends on how the incentive structures for your corporate purchase department are set up - and there's really a ton of variance there, with results ranging from everyone being happy in the best case to frustrated employees quitting in droves or the company getting burned at employer rating portals.
  • tqi 3y ago
    > That depends on how the incentive structures for your corporate purchase department are set up Sure, but that seems orthogonal to the pros and cons of having more layers of oversight (busybodies, to use your term) on infra spend. Badly run companies are badly run, and I don't think having the increased flexibility that comes from cloud providers changes that.
• withinboredom 3y ago
  I literally started laughing at this. I worked at a bare-metal shop fairly recently and a guy on my team used a corporate credit card to set up an AWS account and create an AI chatbot. The dude nearly got fired, but your comment hit the spot. You made my night, thank you.
• threeseed 3y ago
  > keep rogue engineers from burning money on useless features (like AI chat bots) As someone who has worked on an AI chat bot I can assure you it does not come from engineers. It's coming from the CFO who is salivating at the thought of downsizing their customer support team.
  • tqi 3y ago
    The other reply in this thread might beg to differ: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38295849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38295849 I think the reality is no discipline, be it Engineering, Product or Finance, is immune to flights of fancy.