Ask HN: How does your organization make build vs. buy decisions now?
6•bigblind•6h ago
With AI, a lot of things are way easier to build than they once were. So I wonder how big organisations now decide whether to build vs. buy. Building is easy, but you still need to maintain and support everything you build in-house. I'm especially curious how this varies by organisation size.
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prasadvara•6h ago
If I am not wrong, orgs build vs buy for the most part is NOT impacted by AI cycle.
For the most part business care about, is this our core capability OR not?? If core, yes build is what preferred. If not, buy is preferred. Where few occasions they deviate from this due to, to be frank non-technical reasons.
In Software world, building is not the costly, maintaining it is - and this cycle of AI developed software is NOT proven yet. So, so far my understanding is nothing changed in that area.
prasadvara•6h ago
For the most part business care about, is this our core capability OR not?? If core, yes build is what preferred. If not, buy is preferred. Where few occasions they deviate from this due to, to be frank non-technical reasons.
In Software world, building is not the costly, maintaining it is - and this cycle of AI developed software is NOT proven yet. So, so far my understanding is nothing changed in that area.