[karmakaze]

Cobbling together a script is great for one-off work if it gets the job done. What it's not good for is your core business, if it's going to evolve and need refinement over a longer duration with continuous feature additions and changes. Maybe someone who's brilliant could start with a python script and evolve it into Django during the project, but could also simply switch to Django early on.

[erhserhdfd]

Yeah I totally agree, but I do think there are times when starting with the absolute most basic implementation that meets the business needs is the way to go. That could be a simple bash script, or a python script without Django, etc.

In my experience, the key is making those tradeoff decisions in an educated manner. Ideally, product and engineering and in sync and have a somewhat informed view of the future, so appropriate tradeoffs on velocity (simple bash script) versus extensibility (Python with Django) can be discussed.

[karmakaze]

Definitely true at startups where it's that or what else you could/should be doing, and maybe in a few months a pivot means it's mostly discarded for a new adventure.