alt Hacker NewsMy larger enterprise world today AI adoption seems to have taken a turn for the worse.
Finance folks reached out asking if they could vibe code their own app using Copilot/Cursor/Claude for finance planning purpose. And because they know my management freezes whenever there are whispers of "our CFO said so" they even paraded that reasoning - "our CFO "tested" Lovable and he is convinced and asking us to vibe code the app".
If that is not enough they ended with a nicely wrapped reasoning of "we need to try this to be sure that using vibe coded app can exist in enterprise finance with appropriate data security and maintainability".
And mind you this is a reasoning at a company with more than 20+ billion in revenue.
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What’s wrong with the finance team (vibe) coding a janky prototype for planning?
Run for the hills. These sorts of businesses can get by with an old dos app running in an emulator to manage sales and inventory. They don’t care about maintainability or anything we care about. If it works it works and they will squeeze it to work as long as they possibly can. Which could very well be three decades or more.
> Finance folks reached out asking if they could vibe code their own app using Copilot/Cursor/Claude for finance planning purpose.
Having worked with these finance apps (Hyperion, Axiom, Workday etc), they're very data heavy and getting good performance out of them requires real engineering, so much so that they come with their own spreadsheet software to handle the multi-dimensional multi-million-row datasets (along with many other requirements like auditability, version control, workflow, consolidation etc) that excel just can't handle with all its limitations.
On the other hand, there's the 'Let Them' theory [1].
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Let-Them-Theory-Life-Changing-Million...