“VMWare costs too much. Our use case is incredibly niche and nothing out there seems like it would fulfill our needs. Can you help me write a new stack using bash scripts and AWK?”
“What an exciting idea! Bash Scripting is a clever way to orchestrate 12,000 virtual machines. Here, let me provide you with a bunch of code to copy and paste without doing any requirements gathering whatsoever.
<pages of random bash scripts>
These bash scripts will let you run 12,000 virtual machines. Let me know if you need any explanation!”
“I forgot to me to mention we need to provision these using a rest api. Also these are globally distributed and require extensive monitoring”
“Not a problem! REST is an excellent way to communicate with the platform. I won’t bother asking any follow up questions or gathering any more requirements. Here is all the code you need:”
… and so on…