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chasd00 • yesterday at 6:30 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It’s a common pattern in enterprise IT to take a useful spreadsheet and turn it into an application. Without fail, they turn into a forever chase of excel features re-implemented (and poorly) on some front end. Entire teams dedicated to features that would be two clicks away in excel ootb.


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agumonkey • yesterday at 7:06 PM

Indeed. Sometimes it's hard not to think about gaslighting in this field.