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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.

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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.

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

Yes, I agree with that.

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