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0 pointslarodi4mo ago0 comments

> It sounds like you are very far removed from ERP and business systems in general.

am I really? it sounds so many people in big ERP service providers are oblivious of the tide rising that will wash them away, because you know what - most of these companies are super pricey, super slow, very messy and tend to fail large-scale projects that cost millions? I've seen this happen personally, and I have personally, as a sole player implemented ERPs with custom inhouse software.

Trust me brother, I know ERPs very well and seen hundreds of high-profile fakers that have zero knowledge of E/R, Business Architecture, and integrations, that still believe they can get away with nonsense.

Hope you're not one of them.

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lelanthran4mo ago· 1 in thread

> Hope you're not one of them.

I've been part of enough ERP contracts to know that customers evaluate their options based on how easy it is to hire consultants on the open market.

I did do quite a lot of custom software prior to AI-slop, and that market is completely destroyed with vibe-coding agents. The ERP one looks like it is simply going to further entrench the big players, because new ERPs evolve from some custom application, and once that pipeline is gone, your choices are going to be "build it yourself with no ability to hire for it" or "Go with one of the existing behemoths".

My argument is that AI will remove the pipeline that leads to incumbents seeing more competition.

darkwater4mo ago

> on how easy it is to hire consultants on the open market.

In the not not so distant future (5 years? 10?) that consultant market will be of people with very good process knowledge and very good prompting skills. Which might or might not be in a good part the same consultant market we have today.

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