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My colleague wrote this:
Outcome of the meeting:
Make rocket-balancer configuration within each app as supposed to the auto-configuration library.
I think it should be "as opposed to" or "rather than" instead.
Normally we store the configuration in the "auto-configuration library", but in this case we made a conscious decision to deviate from the common way. So "as supposed to" might still be correct here, even though it changes the meaning of the sentence, isn't it?
It was almost certainly meant to be "as opposed to". It is very possible for people to substitute intended words with those that sound similar when speaking. Less so in writing but still possible. Depending on their skills with English they may or may not notice the difference. If the meant to use "supposed to" in some way they would likely have used a different phrase.
