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One of my cousins built an ERP for a factory he was managing. It looked great, and seemed to work great. He has no technical background, and seeing the app work
by dpacmittal 1mo ago
One of my cousins built an ERP for a factory he was managing. It looked great, and seemed to work great. He has no technical background, and seeing the app work gave me real paranoia about my job security.
However, when I looked underneath the code, it was a mess. Biggest problem I saw in the brief time I spent looking at it's internals was that it wasn't using foreign keys in database. Sales invoices had customer info duplicated, and not referenced from the customer table like any sane developer would do. Same thing with purchase orders and supplier info.
AI coded apps look great at surface level, but contains huge footguns underneath.
- pixelatedindex 1mo agoDid they validate the result? Is it correct / accurate? If it is, then it passes the “good enough” test. For non-tech folks who just vibe code a fix, “technical debt” is not in their vocabulary. And if it works well, I don’t see the issue.
- kikimora 1mo agoThere was research showing how AI performance degrades as you go from green field into support. My guess ERP in question will break after some time as agent will add more bugs than new features. Plus recovering data will be extremely difficult.
- jbstack 1mo agoThe other day, someone tried to convince me to play Russian roulette. I was skeptical as it sounded dangerous. However, I validated the result by pointing the gun at my forehead and pulling the trigger several times in a row without anything bad happening. Now I'm been persuaded that it's good enough as a form of entertainment. Someone else told me it's still dangerous, but it works well so I don't see the issue.