alt Hacker News> AI is actually better getting those built as long as you clean it up afterwards
I've never seen a quick PoC get cleaned up. Not once.
I'm sure it happens sometimes, but it's very rare in the industry. The reality is that a PoC usually becomes "good enough" and gets moved into production with only the most perfunctory of cleanup.
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One trick for avoiding this is to use artifacts in the PoC that no self-respecting developer would ever allow in production. I use html tables in PoCs because front-end devs hate them - with old-school properties like cellpadding that I know will get replaced.
I also name everything DEMO__ so at least they'll have to go through the exercise or renaming it. Although I've had cases where they don't even do that lol. But at least then you know who's totally worthless.
There is nothing as permanent as a temporary solution!
The key to every quick POC having a short life, is a reliance on manual work outside of the engineering team.