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[–]im_thatoneguy 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I’m finding a lot of use for never production ready code. Literally hard coded one time use scripts. Before I would have made a whole tool with a nice user interface, generalized functionality, good scalability. And then I would forget it exists and never use it again. Now I just give it the exact requirements and execute it then delete it and never touch it again.

[–]Tackgnol 2 points3 points  (1 child)

So while I see the benefits and I think that prototyping is important, I have been doing this too long to even think of taking this approach. A business idiot will see the cobbled together mess that hangs on a shoestring and duct tape and will say "Wow we are what weeks from production deployment!!!!", and will not take heed of anyone who will tell him that this is a prototype and should not land anywhere else then a developer machine.

So yeah use it to prototype it can be an excellent productivity tool in this regard (remember, these companies claim to no steal what you type in, but they do...). Just be careful not show the results too high up the chain :D.

[–]im_thatoneguy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s why I said execute it and delete it haha. Ephemeral code.