The four-way comparison
“Alternative” can mean four different things. Keep the current tool because migration costs more than the problem. Move to another hosted product. Self-host mature open-source software. Or build a smaller system around the workflow the business actually uses.
Agent-built software is one option in that comparison. It doesn't get a favorable verdict by default.
What replacement reports disclose
- The workflow, current product, and reason for looking.
- The feature boundary and everything left out.
- Actual users, record growth, peak load, and capacity margin.
- The model, coding agent, prompts, tools, and human decisions.
- Build time, cash cost, hosting, maintenance, and migration work.
- Authentication, data sensitivity, backups, monitoring, export, and rollback.
- Source code, tagged release, tests, known failures, and follow-up results.
- A verdict: keep, switch, self-host, build, or skip.
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