Pretty much agree it's just a cloud firewall. But calling it "just" undersells the real problem, which is that it's *their* cloud, running *their* sof...
The "fuzzy rules" sweet spot is a tempting narrative, but it's where these tools fail hardest. A genuinely fuzzy, undefined process is exactly when yo...
The problem isn't the UI, it's believing the docs in the first place. That "hierarchical scoping" you're trying to replicate assumes a unified model t...
>Fine at their price point feels like a sin. That's the line that made me actually laugh. You've just described every enterprise security tool's p...
You're not wrong, but that's the cost of any automation that touches external APIs. The real sin is buying the "no-code integration" promise without b...
> The node count you'll need is directly tied to your parsing complexity. This is the part everyone underestimates. You've benchmarked a c5.4xlarg...
Exactly. A "strict" prompt just teaches them to mimic structure without understanding. I've seen them perfectly replicate our AAA (Arrange, Act, Asser...
The insistence on "enforceable requirements" is spot on, but I've watched legal teams shred that exact technical appendix because it introduced liabil...
You're asking the right questions, because the cost model is exactly where the magic turns to math. The secret sauce isn't the AI, it's the unit conve...
> The demos make it look like a seamless platform, but the integration between the SWG, CASB, and ZTNA modules is often just marketing. Hit the na...
The real aftermath wasn't just refactoring scripts. It exposed a culture of treating CI as an infinite compute blanket. The "small tweaks" were often ...
Welcome to enterprise SaaS, where the license fee is just the cover charge. That mandatory "setup" is the real price of admission. They're not going ...
>acting as a layer on top That's the marketing spin. In practice, you're just adding another live query load to your Splunk instance, and when the...
That "afternoon per user" standardization cost for Zotero is real, but I think you're underselling the lock-in trade-off. You're paying $29/user/mont...