If you spend more than 20k on a software implementation before it can be shipped, you have been doing it wrong regardless, I think.

Many years ago one of my team leads said: "if we cannot do it in 3 sprints, we cannot do it". Which roughly translates to "1 week" of API expenditure now; not including refinement.

> PWC = Price Waterhouse Cunts?

Yeah or fill in your own. It's a placeholder.

20k is trivial

I think it's more like 200k

edit: PWC = Price Waterhouse Cunts?

Bell_curve

I've worked with and without it. The upside of being a stubborn mf and sticking with best-of-breed has been that you didn't need to hire a team of PWC dudes to get something customized. The downside was that you'd still be vendor locked.

That's changed now but I fear it will take a while for businesses to wake up to this new shiny future of burned out solo devs, a $20k Anthropic bill and half finished software. lol

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The Economics of AI and Infinite Supply

denlillaapan

I've worked with and without it. The upside of being a stubborn mf and sticking with best-of-breed has been that you didn't need to hire a team of PWC dudes to get something customized. The downside was that you'd still be vendor locked.

That's changed now but I fear it will take a while for businesses to wake up to this new shiny future of burned out solo devs, a $20k Anthropic bill and half finished software. lol