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		blowski on July 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes If the PoC can be built by those with strong domain knowledge, providing the basis for a detailed spec, that seems like a win to me.

robertlagrant on July 1, 2024 | [–]

That would be a win, but then the hideous code becomes the spec, and it becomes a project ten times the size to reverse engineer the "spec" into an actual spec.

hermitcrab on July 1, 2024 | | [–]

But if you let them do it in Excel, it would be 10 times worse again.

smetj on July 1, 2024 | [–]

Yes, I agree with that.

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