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Horses for courses..

If you want to build a shed, go to your local hardware store and buy a kit set.

If you want to build a skyscraper, get an architect, some engineers and a competent building company.



Which of course becomes the CTO saying of course the business can build skyscrapers with these simple kit sets.


I've seen the opposite. Business hires new CTO who has no knowledge of existing stack and why it is breaking but sells the top brass on a low code replacement because of how quickly he can build with it. Spends a year building the replacement, forces a hard switch and fireworks ensue.


If you want to bank land, build a shed and rent it out, then if you successfully get rezoned build the skyscraper.


I've never seen a local hardware store shed kit that wasn't complete garbage for the price.

Building a simple shed isn't hard, if you can handle assembling the kit you can buy and cut the basic materials yourself. The trickier parts like getting it watertight or installing doors and windows have to be done either way, all the kit gets you is a bundle of inferior materials and a bit of time savings cutting studs.


Bingo




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