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>>deofoo+(OP)
Good, I will with great pleasure now reiterate my point about people now producing their own code, even complex stuff, rather than downloading potentially malicious and foreign code. Which as a tendency threatens ALL clumsy big ERP service providers selling you SAAS.

Go ahead - I'm ready to be down-voted again and again until folks realize it is inevitable, as is inevitable that many companies in the area of business software are going down down down.

>>larodi+eX8
I'm the main dev in a small IT company, my backlog is filled with requests, it's not always easy to prioritize and plan, some of those small projects are ignored for months, yet their business value are sound.

I've observed a new trend, managers who are frequently in the wait list started to use AI to generate small local apps. They still rely on my input when it's complex, or when implementation could generate risks or need resilience and would ask for small code reviews when they are unsure of the generated code quality.

The result is win win, I have more time for high value projects the executives want to prioritize, and managers can innovate faster almost on their own.

>>nkapia+9y9
While it's great now, my worry is that these apps will start to rot as the platforms and infra they run on advance forward, then developers will be on the hook for migrating them.

Although if they were HTML/JS/CSS with no dependencies you could argue that might be quite bullet proof since browsers have an unmatched record of backward compatibility.

>>cube00+J0c
With change management they can be informed of platform / infra and be autonomous to upgrade their app. They usually are in the loop if they have ownership, or will be after it happens a few times.

Also I believe the value is in the output, not the app itself. ROI of a 1 hour AI slop should™ be attained before it rots and they can just spun up a new one.

I might be hopeful and a bit selfish here, I expect my colleagues to own their toolbox.