4 Reasons You Should Never Use Proof of Concepts in Production

Why your mini-masterpiece should never see the light of day

Allen Helton
Better Programming
Published in
6 min readSep 28, 2020

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I have never met a developer who doesn’t like building proof of concepts (POCs). The chance to build something new from scratch to test a theory/process/technology… I get excited just thinking about it.

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