The issue is that what often happens next is the thing that got cobbled together as a customer POC ends up in production.
Most hardware goes through extensive validation and revision before tooling to manufacture and ship at scale. The software space hasn’t always (often has not) found the correct balance between low cost early iterations and a properly hardened customer-ready product. The temptation is strong to just call it ready because it’s always possible to patch it later.
While I agree that finding this balance is a challenge, I don’t think that lowers the criticality of productionizing the code or the risk of using these early stage products that haven’t “grown up”.
Most hardware goes through extensive validation and revision before tooling to manufacture and ship at scale. The software space hasn’t always (often has not) found the correct balance between low cost early iterations and a properly hardened customer-ready product. The temptation is strong to just call it ready because it’s always possible to patch it later.
While I agree that finding this balance is a challenge, I don’t think that lowers the criticality of productionizing the code or the risk of using these early stage products that haven’t “grown up”.