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sure, this will work if what your doing can be generated essentially off templates.

this will start breaking down when you start building components which are inter-related. every incremental change now requires understanding of the ball of spaghetti that exists.




which is why the guy above is so very, very wrong that these steps actually take five minutes, as opposed to just looking like they do :)


But you don't have that problem if you used a single competent coder.


a competent coder will not build a person's turd-trading platform in five-minute increments for $60 per 12.


No, but you can pay them to work for an hour making an ugly form attached to a database.




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