Probably true for at least some of them. Having crunched out prototypes by both more formal and ad hoc code generation in a bunch of languages, and also having

Probably true for at least some of them. Having crunched out prototypes by both more formal and ad hoc code generation in a bunch of languages, and also having inherited some mature applications that started that way, I'm not really impressed with the notion of putting down some foundations fast. If you're building something possibly serious, you expect to be hacking away for years anyway. Whether it takes you one or five weekends to make something for recruiting or financing or whatever doesn't actually matter much, it's not a very good sales pitch. I think a lot of the hype is from managerial people, the kind that have been swayed by promises from people selling RAD and "low code" and so on over the decades. And yeah, you can put your non-technical employees to work building things if you want, but when it breaks your profits are at risk anyway and the consultants you need to hire won't be cheap.