# The Cost of a "User-Driven" System with No Filters

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Database without Primary Key, Foreign Key, Constraint
Spreadsheet + GUID cosplay

Project Owner without System Ownership, Product Vision/Direction, Accountability
A feature wishlist printer who doesn’t know how the app works

Business Engineer without Decision Confidence, Technical Understanding, Flow Awareness, Prioritization
A fear-driven feedback generator

Dev
Left customizing code and architecture based on reactive emotional fear


“Here, we do whatever the user wants.”
That was the moment I realized: this isn’t product development — this is chaos management.


Here’s what that really means:

  • No product ownership
  • No logic gate between wishful thinking and production
  • No pushback, no filtering, no prioritization
  • Just BA/BE acting as human forward bots, dumping raw input on devs

What happens next:

  • The system bends to every fear, every whim, every “what if”
  • Business logic turns into duct tape
  • Flow becomes an emotional rollercoaster
  • And engineers?
    → We become the sanity firewall — rewriting backend code to accommodate feelings, not facts

Reality check:

  • User-driven ≠ user-ruled.
    Building software is not the same as saying yes to everything.
  • If no one protects the system, it will rot — no matter how many devs you hire.

Posted from the last stage of a glamorous AI project built on a low-code database with no primary key.

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