Thoughts on Replit?
from ramble81@lemmy.zip to programming@programming.dev on 17 Mar 16:38
https://lemmy.zip/post/60921057

So some backstory here: I’m pretty much anti-AI, but I try to stay on top of things so I can make informed recommendations to leadership. Recently , they’ve come to me interested in using Replit “because it’s so easy” and they almost have a site built out how they want.

Besides the fact that it’s managed to blow up and nuke production, what are some pros/cons about it? I’m worried about things like BCDR, vulnerability scanning, separation of duties, etc. You know all the base things you should have in place too.

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kambusha@sh.itjust.works on 17 Mar 17:12 collapse

Forget replit specifically, what problem are they trying to solve? Leadership shouldn’t dictate the solution but define a problem that needs solving.

lime@feddit.nu on 17 Mar 17:25 next collapse

we once lost a contract to build a service from scratch because the team didn’t have enough experience with aws lambda.

there was no stack, no legacy code. the pitch was basically “onlyfans but sfw”, with no further details. as a team we had about 80 years of experience. all seniors. but no, they wanted experience with lambdas.

Bibip@programming.dev on 17 Mar 17:35 collapse

a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing

ramble81@lemmy.zip on 17 Mar 19:09 collapse

Valid question, but leadership is technical enough to cause trouble and this is a smaller company that values fast right now.

I’m working within constraints for now before pushing cultural fixes.