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SYSE.24:4.9 - What Changes in Practice

The engineering team stops comparing buy, build, outsource, AI, and reuse as if those words named equivalent options. It compares complete ways of obtaining one result. This exposes integration, configuration, assurance, provider dependence, internal capability, and exit before the commitment makes them expensive.