I used to believe this but don't any longer. For 'cookie cutter' business software development you don't need AI to write the software. Better frameworks or ev

I used to believe this but don't any longer. For 'cookie cutter' business software development you don't need AI to write the software. Better frameworks or even just a respin of tools like MS Access would be much more impactful. Yet we see relatively little progress in the space of RAD tools, which were a big thing in the 1990s but have largely been killed off by the web. How many frontend devs even use a visual UI designer these days? Mostly they write HTML either by hand or using mashups of JavaScript and XML like in React. If anything dev productivity has gone backwards, and expecting AI to fix that doesn't make much sense. To start with just one big problem - even the best AI can't really conceptually understand something like a business domain, and business customers often struggle to understand what software can do or articulate what they really want. AI will contribute in some areas, probably with small workflow and performance optimisations. It isn't going to radically change anything.